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Passepartout Neurosymbolic Engine — Design Decisions — SUPERSEDED

This document has been consolidated into passepartout/docs/DESIGN_DECISIONS.org. The unified document interleaves the neurosymbolic design rationale into nine thematic parts with a single narrative arc:

Part Topic Key New Sections
I Foundation Historical Lineage (McCarthy)
II The Two Brains Hallucination Problem, 10-80-10, Brain/Education metaphor
III Safety & Self-Preservation Active Third Law, Layered Signal Authentication
IV The Symbolic Engine Five Options, Chosen Path, Gate-to-Fact Bootstrap, LLM as Proposer, Cardinality Policies, Organic Ontology, Ontology Versioning, Sufficiency Criterion, Merkle DAG, Abstract Fact Store Interface
V Knowledge Sources Semantic Wikipedia, MOMo Empirical Validation
VI Implementation Properties Performance Scaling, Provenance as Product
VII Engineering Infrastructure REPL, Cybernetic Loop, Observability, Literate Programming, Eval Harness, MCP, Local-First, Token Economics, Time Awareness (carried over from existing)
VIII Validation Marcus, CREST, KiL philosophical validation; Competitive Argument
IX Open Questions Fact language, human role, Wikidata scope, natural language interface, graph query performance

Cross-references are preserved in:

  • notes/passepartout-symbolic-engine-exploration.org
  • notes/passepartout-whitehead.org
  • notes/competitive-landscape.org