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A reference whose kind the document never brings at all is NOT CHECKED — it may point at another artifact's parts.","refuses":"a reference naming a carrier the document did not bring (“section 4 of the migration guide”, “section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act”); a reference inside a quotation; where a document has already shown it cites a KIND outward, further unresolvable references of that same kind; a reference whose kind appears nowhere as a target in the document (unless the reference itself names this document as its carrier); and German statutory citations — “§ 132 BAO”, “§ 25 Mediengesetz” — where the statute names itself as the carrier"},{"id":"arithmetic","name":"Arithmetic","purpose":"a stated total against the figures standing beside it","convicts":"stated-total-vs-addends · stated-mean-vs-values · stated-interval-vs-dates, within one sentence","describes":"A sum, average or interval that does not match the numbers in its own sentence — “thirty days” between two dates six weeks apart.","refuses":"arithmetic spanning more than one sentence, where the operands are a reading rather than a parse; and comparisons of magnitude or unit, which are judgements about the world. AND, IN THE CHECK'S OWN WORDS: whether any figure is TRUE; percentages that may or may not share one denominator, which cannot be decided without reading the document's meaning; durations in months or years, whose length is not constant; figures carrying different marks, which are never compared; figures inside TABLE ROWS, which are not read as prose because deciding which column a total belongs to would need the document's meaning; and anything inside a FENCED BLOCK, which is shown rather than claimed"},{"id":"list-count","name":"Count against list","purpose":"a count introducing a list against the items actually in that list","convicts":"introduced-count-vs-list-items, for bullet, numbered and middle-dot lists","describes":"“Two changes:” followed by one bullet.","refuses":"a count with no list beneath it, which the enumeration check reports as not checked; and nested lists, where which level the count governs is undecidable. AND, IN THE CHECK'S OWN WORDS: counts whose members are named in prose rather than listed; counts separated from their list by prose or more than one blank line; and dates, versions, percentages and measurements, which are not counts of members"},{"id":"constraint","name":"Declared bound and form","purpose":"an instruction the document gave ITSELF against what it then produced","convicts":"declared-sentence-bound-vs-sentences · declared-format-vs-delivered-format","describes":"“In two sentences:” over three. “In bullet points:” over a paragraph of prose.","refuses":"word bounds, which ordinary writing uses as a target rather than a commitment; floors rather than ceilings; any block containing an abbreviation, where the sentence split is unreliable; and a format delivered as a different KIND of list, which still delivered a list. AND, IN THE CHECK'S OWN WORDS: word bounds, which are targets rather than commitments; floors, which only an undercount could break; blocks carrying abbreviations, whose sentences cannot be counted safely; material that is a list, which another check already owns; and a declared list answered with a list of the OTHER kind, which loses a reader nothing"},{"id":"ordinal","name":"Ordinal sequence","purpose":"a named sequence against its own order","convicts":"word-ordinal-run and labelled-number-run, each judged per label for gaps and repeats","describes":"First · Second · Fourth. Step 2 twice. A procedure that names its order and then breaks it.","refuses":"markdown ordered lists, which every renderer renumbers, so a gap in the source is invisible in the document; runs of fewer than three markers; gaps in a run that does not begin at one; and whether the order is the RIGHT order, which is a reading. AND, IN THE CHECK'S OWN WORDS: markdown ordered lists, which a renderer renumbers; sequences of fewer than three markers; gaps in a sequence that does not begin at one; markers inside a line rather than opening it, or merely opening a WRAPPED line inside a sentence; and whether the order is the RIGHT order, which is a reading. A document holding SEVERAL sequences is judged as several: a marker of value one arriving mid-document starts a fresh run, which is how a reader parses it"},{"id":"self-contradiction","name":"The document against its own principles","purpose":"a rule the document stated against what the document later does with it","convicts":"term-defined-twice-differently convicts · absolute-then-later-exception is REPORTED and never convicted","describes":"A term defined one way and later defined another, so every claim standing between the two means something the reader cannot recover.","refuses":"an absolute followed by a later exception is reported, not convicted — a careful document narrows its own rule and that is the document working; telling a narrowing from a contradiction needs the author's intention, which is a reading. Also refused: an absolute inside a quotation; a subject too general to match on; and a passage longer than a sentence, whose vocabulary is the document's rather than a principle's. AND, IN THE CHECK'S OWN WORDS: whether a principle is TRUE or an exception WISE, which are readings; contradictions that need the meaning of a sentence rather than its modality; absolutes whose subject is too general to match safely; passages longer than a sentence, whose vocabulary is the document's rather than a principle's; headings, titles, table rows and fragments that never close, which name a topic rather than assert one; a sentence that appears to except several different absolutes, which makes it general rather than pointed; and anything inside a quotation, which the document reports rather than asserts"}],"verdicts":[{"id":"conviction","human":"a located defect: what, and the line it sits on"},{"id":"clean","human":"the check ran, applied, and found nothing"},{"id":"refusal","human":"the check did not judge, and says why — not a finding of guilt and not a finding of innocence"}],"refusalForms":[{"id":"not-applicable","human":"the check does not apply to this document — stated as “not run on this document” rather than passed over in silence"},{"id":"unchecked-partial","human":"the evidence was partial, so the verdict is UNCHECKED rather than a guess"},{"id":"refused-before-spend","human":"the boundary was reached and nothing was spent — the ceiling refusing"},{"id":"not-checked-with-reason","human":"the rule cannot decide THIS instance, and the reason is named — a reference into a carrier we were not given, a quotation the document exhibits rather than asserts"},{"id":"noted-not-convicted","human":"the shape was found and is not a defect — reported so the reader can judge, never counted as guilt"}],"free":true,"notice":"This is a description of the service, not a use of it. 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