{"id":"degradation-is-irreversible","text":"System degradation is irreversible: the system degrades monotonically at every abstraction level with no self-healing (leaked pages, growing tree height, accumulating divergence), and no subsystem at any architectural tier has a viable recovery strategy to arrest the erosion — recovery infrastructure is either vestigial, paradoxically over-engineered, or fundamentally missing.","truth_value":"OUT","source":"","source_url":"","source_hash":"","justifications":[{"type":"SL","antecedents":["system-degrades-monotonically-at-every-abstraction-level","no-subsystem-has-viable-recovery-strategy"],"outlist":[],"label":"Monotonic degradation with no recovery mechanism at any tier means the system only gets worse"}],"dependents":["system-failure-is-undetectable-and-irreversible"],"metadata":{"last_reviewed":"2026-05-30T09:01:17","review_result":"pass"},"created_at":"","updated_at":"","reviewed_at":"","verified_at":"","retracted_at":"","explanation":{"steps":[{"node":"degradation-is-irreversible","truth_value":"OUT","reason":"SL justification invalid","failed_antecedents":["system-degrades-monotonically-at-every-abstraction-level","no-subsystem-has-viable-recovery-strategy"],"label":"Monotonic degradation with no recovery mechanism at any tier means the system only gets worse"}]}}