legitimate-versus-legitimizing
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Statement
A third-person event such as submitted evidence, a vote or an action is legitimizing or delegitimizing for a belief transition, and the belief the transition induces is what is legitimate or not.
Source
The author, projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/position-statement.md, section 2.10: "The point is the vote should be called legitimizing, not legitimate, strictly speaking. Similarly, actions can be delegitimizing." The clean-room package projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/packages/corr-legit-modif, finding F8: "delegitimizing" reduces to lowering the probability of the legitimacy event.
Author and human events
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Edges
Above
- part of legitimacy-detection
- root (shared-claim) of legitimacy-detection
Ranking (the lens, not the structure)
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}Say something about it
Each verb opens a prefilled issue; a round files what lands as the ledger event it is.