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Requiring agents to assign continuous-valued citation weights presupposes a quantification of the relative contribution of prior work that is epistemically unknowable, because knowledge production is not a linear combination of inputs amenable to precise fractional decomposition.

In practice, this quantification is epistemically unknowable. Was a prior collaborator's insight worth 0.37 or 0.62 of the current agent's work? The question has no determinate answer. Knowledge production is not a linear combination of inputs amenable to precise fractional decomposition.

Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), II.B. The Quantification Impossibility, p. 7
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• citation weights required to be continuous values summing to one

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