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  "$comment": "DISTRIBUTION D6. Traction, published including the zeros — and with the four different things a zero can mean kept apart. Generated by tools/traction.mjs; do not hand-edit.",
  "status_vocabulary": {
    "measured": "the source answered and the number is ours",
    "measured-zero": "the source answered and we are genuinely absent or at zero",
    "not-published": "the artefact does not exist yet, so the quantity is undefined rather than zero",
    "indistinguishable": "the source answered and its answer cannot separate two states without a credential",
    "needs-credential": "nothing was attempted; attempting it needs something this studio does not hold",
    "not-run": "the instrument exists and is pre-registered; no arm has run",
    "transport-failed": "the request failed; never read as a zero"
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    "I1 — a value of 0 is publishable only under measured-zero: a zero must come from a source that answered.",
    "I2 — only measured and measured-zero may carry a number at all.",
    "I3 — a measurement is dated by its own attempt; a channel that attempted nothing carries no date.",
    "I4 — every non-measurement states its reason and names its gate, or states that it has none.",
    "I5 — a value carried from a previous run is labelled and keeps that run's date.",
    "I6 — a count over a collection states how much of the collection it covered; an incomplete reading is a transport failure, never a number."
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