Concept · dictionary entry
Provenance Continuity
The requirement that the origin of every admitted claim remains traceable across transformations.
Definition
Provenance continuity requires that for every claim in the current state, the origin of that claim — the source, the evidence, the transformation history — remains reachable across subsequent transformations. Losing provenance is a class of invariant violation.
Formal reference
Governed Relational Geometry: A Formal Model for Evidence, Context and Valid Transformation — §5
Related concepts
Demonstrations
Limitations
- Provenance continuity is a structural property, not a truth guarantee
- A claim with intact provenance can still be false; its provenance shows how it became admitted