id: internal-consistency
name: No contradictory claims within paper
description: >
  No two claims in the paper may be logically incompatible. Common failure modes:
  a theoretical frame is declared "analogy only" in one section but used as
  load-bearing evidence in another; a term is hedged in a footnote but asserted
  without hedge in the conclusion; a disclaimer in §1 is violated by reasoning
  in §10. Pass: all claims are mutually consistent and hedges are honored throughout.
  Fail: a claim in one section contradicts or undermines a claim in another section
  without acknowledgment.
property: Self-describing
tags: [academic-paper]
phase: staging
trigger: pr
blocking: true
check:
  type: manual