Repudiated by name#

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A file is flagged when its name says not to use it, with a word such as ignore, failed or contaminated.

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  • Kind of rule: What is raised for attention (flags). Raises something for a person’s attention without concluding anything.

  • What it concludes: a finding

  • Reasoning: defeasible. A conclusion is usually right, and is retracted when a rule it names concludes against it.

  • What it reads: one folder at a time

Is it available in this version?#

Yes. The engine runs it.

What would defeat it#

A finding is never withdrawn. When any of these rules also concludes about the same thing, the finding records it:

  • installed_software_in_folder: A folder is recognized as an installed program, such as a copy of Fiji or a Python environment, from the parts it holds, a name ending .app, its program-style subfolders or a majority of program files; its files are still indexed and read, and rules about experiments leave them alone.

It stands aside beneath every folder one of these rules raises:

Parameters#

Parameter

Shipped value

May be

What it does

senses

["do_not_use", "ignore", "deprecated", "delete", "wrong", "broken", "failed", "contaminated"]

list of text

The terms that repudiate rather than merely doubt. Terms the lexicon marks as ordinary vocabulary somewhere are absent: a file about a test statistic is not a test file, and a control is not doubtful.

minimum_terms

1

whole number, from 1 to 10

How many such terms a name needs. One, because nobody writes any of these by accident.