| name | why-therefore |
|---|---|
| description | Run the why/therefore consistency ritual on a draft answer before committing to it. For each load-bearing claim, abduce its cause ("why?"), then check blind that the cause alone leads back to the claim and not to a plausible wrong alternative ("therefore?"), and revise every claim that fails. Use this whenever the user asks to "run the ritual", asks for a why/therefore or causal-consistency check, says "are you sure?", "sanity-check this" or "double-check your reasoning", and also when an answer rests on a chain of causal or factual claims where a self-contradiction would be costly, such as a root-cause analysis, a diagnosis, an explanation of why something happened, a plan with dependencies, or a summary of evidence. |
"Why" is the inverse of "therefore". If a claim is something you really hold, it must survive a round trip: from the claim to its cause, and from the cause back to the claim. A claim that cannot make the trip back is a claim you w