Failure-pattern registry · version 1.0.0

No resolution source named

PMI-WP-003StructuralTrack: Settlement & resolution governanceRevised

Definition

Written to be quoted. This is the sentence to cite when a counterparty disagrees, not the sentence the tool shows you.

The text does not name whose account of the world settles the question. Absent a named source, resolution falls to whoever is holding the pen when the outcome is contested.

Remedy

Name the source and the specific publication it appears in.

Severity

Structural — likely to produce a disputed resolution

Where it comes from

Who decides, and under what constraint?

Sources of truth, oracle and committee structures, appeal windows, halt criteria, and what a venue owes participants when the world refuses to be tidy.

The standing agenda

Cite this

The identifier names the pattern for good. The version names the exact wording of the definition above, which is what an argument about a contract actually turns on.

Prediction Markets Institute, “No resolution source named” (PMI-WP-003), wording failure-pattern registry v1.0.0, https://www.predictionmarketadvisors.com/patterns/PMI-WP-003

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