Ground-the-claim

What these words mean

• Claim — the source's own position on one specific question the source answers, restated in the user's words and checked for fidelity, written as a declarative sentence. Never the user's opinion — an object of understanding, not agreement. A source usually holds several.
• Core Idea — the source's central argument, one declarative sentence, every Claim in the note in service of it. Distinct from a Claim: a Claim is one thing the source argues, the Core Idea is what the source is for. Written once per note, on its first Claim.
• Literature note — the file a source's confirmed Claims get written into. One per source clip, holding as many Key Claims as the source actually supports — written incrementally as each is confirmed, never revisited afterward once written except out-of-band manual fidelity corrections: fixing a misreading, a transcription error, or wording that misrepresents the source. Reaction, stance, or synthesis never enters; a correction must move the note closer to the source. Slugs stay final once written.