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All-or-Nothing

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

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Every atom in a rule system is flatly true or flatly false, so the knowledge author must overclaim or stay silent — the form has no way to say "usually."

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Yellow leaves suggest overwatering without proving it, and the rule form cannot write "suggest."

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The forced choice, repeated across a whole knowledge base, is brittleness at its root.