Visual companion / Triadic Trust

Triadic Trust
Trust has more than one witness.

Lineage, correctness and faithfulness answer different questions. Inspect each independently before reading them together.

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Triadic Trust / Three independent readings

No single witness
answers everything.

Select each leg to inspect its contribution and its limit. These controls choose an explanation; they do not confer a pass.

Structure / Reproduction / Cryptography

Three legs, one inspectable claim

Faithfulness

Does the structure honour the declaration?

Inspect the specification, implementation boundaries and declared commitments. A digest alone cannot answer this question.

Conceptual trust architecture. Selecting a leg does not validate a claim or certify an artifact.

Read the Triadic Trust specification Reproduce a cryptographic result

Lineage: follow the record.

Cryptographic commitments make a record's integrity and lineage inspectable. They do not, alone, establish the quality of its underlying observations.

Correctness: reproduce the result.

Published inputs and an explicit method allow an independent party to reproduce a result. Matching output is a narrower claim than validating every scientific prediction.

Faithfulness: inspect the structure.

Compare the implementation and its declared boundaries to the specification. Structural agreement is not interchangeable with a hash match or an on-chain record.

The source remains the reference

Read beyond the diagram.

The companion volume reads from the corpus. This visual essay explains selected mechanisms; the governing corpus controls any conflict.

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