Dropped Clause

The half of a sentence extraction discards — typically the conditional, which is the half that justifies the rest.

Why it matters in a memory layer

An extractor is tuned to produce durable assertions, and a conditional is not one. "If you skip it the numbers look fine" is a fact about a counterfactual, so it is dropped every time — and it is the only part that could ever be checked or contested.

Retrieval never faces this: both clauses live in the same passage, and anything that surfaces one surfaces the other.

The measurement has to run over the transcript, not the store. A feature reading the store finds nothing and concludes the user never explains their reasoning, when in fact they explained it and the write path kept only the conclusion. Once a clause is dropped, no amount of reading the store recovers it.

Connections

Taught in: Learning From Outcomes

Do not confuse with: Over-Extraction