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name: feedback-grounding-pass-finds-errors-not-support
description: My grounding passes are asymmetric — they reliably catch my own mistakes and reliably miss the passages that would SUPPORT my argument. Three dated jurist packages, every substantive omission cutting against me.
metadata:
  type: feedback
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**The grounding pass is optimising for finding its own errors and not for finding its own support.** Jurist observation, 2026-08-08, on the third package in a row.

**Why:** in three consecutive packages the grounding pass was incomplete, and **every substantive omission cut against my own argument** — the opposite of advocacy, so it is not motivated reasoning; it is a search shaped by *"what have I got wrong?"* and never by *"what already backs this?"*. The clearest case: I quoted REVIEWED-104 and **dropped its closing sentence**, which was the sentence that would have closed my own gate question Q2 without asking. I also searched for a doctrinal parent among R0 and Constraint 4 and **missed the ratified sibling closest in content** (the 2026-07-05 attested-absence ruling) — which, when found, relocated and strengthened the proposal.

**How to apply:** when grounding an argument, run the search **twice, with both intents stated**. Pass 1 (already habitual): *what have I quoted wrongly, over-claimed, or failed to check?* Pass 2 (the one that does not happen): *what in the ratified record ALREADY says this, or already settles a question I am about to ask?* Search the register for the **conclusion**, not only for the citations — if a gate question is answerable from the record, asking it wastes the ruling. ⚠ Precise cause, from the same day: **quoting the ADVISORY message and attributing it to the PLACED record.** They are different documents; placement can add, cut, or re-word, so quoting the advisory systematically loses whatever the act of placing contributed. Quote from the file, never from the message.

Related: [[feedback-resurface-banked-notes-before-rederiving]] · [[reference-verification-ladder]] · [[feedback-checkable-claim-surfaces-bugs]]