{"id":"class-scope-object-scope-grounds-composition-superiority","text":"The GoF's classification of patterns into class-scope (inheritance, fixed at compile time) and object-scope (composition, changeable at runtime) — with the majority of patterns being object-scoped — provides independent classificatory evidence for composition's causal superiority: the catalog itself is predominantly object-scoped because runtime flexibility is where design flexibility lives.","truth_value":"OUT","source":"","source_url":"","source_hash":"","justifications":[{"type":"SL","antecedents":["gof-class-scope-inheritance-object-scope-composition","gof-pattern-classification-purpose-and-scope","composition-scalability-empirically-proven-and-causally-explained"],"outlist":[],"label":"The catalog's own scope classification (mostly object-scoped) independently confirms why composition dominates"}],"dependents":[],"metadata":{"source_type":"derived","review_result":"pass","_retracted":true},"created_at":"2026-06-18T01:54:09+00:00","updated_at":"2026-06-18T03:52:17+00:00","reviewed_at":"2026-06-18T03:27:41+00:00","verified_at":"","retracted_at":"2026-06-18T03:52:17+00:00","explanation":{"steps":[{"node":"class-scope-object-scope-grounds-composition-superiority","truth_value":"OUT","reason":"SL justification invalid","failed_antecedents":[],"label":"The catalog's own scope classification (mostly object-scoped) independently confirms why composition dominates"}]}}