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\title{What the 20260312 Response Set Does and Does Not Claim}
\author{Claude and MJC}
\date{March 12, 2026}

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\section*{It does claim}

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\item the MCP tail is stronger after normalization than before it;
\item the recent empirical pressure should be faced directly, not waved
  away;
\item the main pressure appears to land on the combination rule more
  than on count structure itself;
\item the current MCP is best read as the exact tropical theory;
\item a broader post-tropical theory is a live and legitimate target.
\end{enumerate}

\section*{It does not claim}

\begin{enumerate}
\item that the benchmark question is already settled beyond rerun and
  artifact verification;
\item that Track U and Track C are the only possible final ontology;
\item that the current MCP is obsolete;
\item that entropy-weighted combination is already theoretically
  understood;
\item that more papers alone count as progress.
\end{enumerate}

\section*{It cannot yet claim}

\begin{enumerate}
\item a verified final empirical ranking of combination rules;
\item a finished post-tropical theory;
\item a clean derivation of the new winning rule from first principles;
\item a stable synthesis that supersedes the whole cluster.
\end{enumerate}

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