Does the Compiler Know When It's Wrong? Semantic Rediscovery and the Limits of Falsification-Awareness

Two failures I refused to fix Popper ORKG ended on a deliberately uncomfortable note. The compiler beat its three controls on a corpus I did not build, the ablation proved the architecture was load bearing, and the grounding audit found zero hallucinated citations across 265 evidence items. But I published two failures alongside the wins, un fixed by design: 1. Temporal rediscovery was near zero.…