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Claims: turning a corkboard into an argument

A claim card counts what supports and refutes it — and refuses to pretend that is a score.

A CLAIM is an assertion evidence points at. State it plainly: a sentence someone could disagree with. If nobody could disagree, it is a fact, not a claim.

Connect sources to it with Supports or Refutes yarn, drawn from the evidence to the claim. The card then shows what is attached: how many sources for, how many against, and how many of those carry a citation.

It counts them. It does not weigh them, and that is deliberate. One decisive primary document outranks nine secondary mentions, and no arithmetic knows that — you do. Cited and uncited evidence are counted separately for the same reason: "3 for" reads very differently when none of the three has a source.