# converge — the answer, with its receipts **T9 · core · reads `bindings` · writes `meanings`** The summing engine. Every candidate's total is a stated formula — **total = 2·bind + 0.1·blast**, multipliers opinion, inputs evidence — and the ranked list comes out carrying everything a reader needs to disbelieve it: the definition or statement, the anchored quote and section where one exists, the blast radius, and since brief 35 the **anchoring declaration**: `fact-anchored` (a quote in a named section), `a stated claim` (asserted, not quoted), `an authored term` (meaning pack), or `a chosen sense` (the register). Contradictions are never resolved silently: a negated word this universe asserts, and a sense switch that takes claims with it, both become notes spoken in the answer card. ## the transformation ``` bindings ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────► candidate 2·bind +0.1·blast total ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── meaning through connectivity 2·1.0 0.5 2.5 ◄ winner connectivity 2·0.75 0.1 1.6 meaning (pack) 2·0.75 0 1.5 │ ├─ anchoring: quote? → fact-anchored §… │ statement? → stated claim │ pack/sense? → authored input └─ notes: negated word ∈ world labels → contradiction said foreign word → "claims that lean on it do not apply" meanings ──────► ``` ## official data `data.json`: the multipliers (**standard** opinion, the two numbers most worth arguing with), and the anchoring ladder (**standard** rule; the quotes and statements it reads are **derived** from the extraction). ## tuning notes Ties break by id, so replay is stable. The ranking question brief 33 left open lands here and in bind; the anchoring ladder could gain a rung ("corroborated: quoted in more than one document") the day the fan-out gives it meaning.