# White Line: A Typed Ledger for the Edge of the Claim

**Daniel Ari Friedman** (2026) · *Zenodo*

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## Abstract

A typed ledger for absence: epistemic gaps, ethical restraint, and contemplative negative space. It records what is missing, withheld, or unresolved under a total caution order, decays stale namings past their review horizons, and refuses to infer why anything is absent. Withholding is recorded as a boundary, never mined as missing evidence. Subtitle: Keeping missing evidence, ethical boundaries, and open questions from becoming unsupported claims Code is MIT licensed; prose and figures are CC BY 4.0. See LICENSE in the repository.

## Keywords

absence · epistemic gaps · missing evidence · withheld material · uncertainty · negative results · research ethics · open science

## Artifacts

| Field | Value |
|------|-------|
| **DOI** | [10.5281/zenodo.21754241](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21754241) |
| **Published** | 2026-08-02 |
| **Version** | 0.7.0 |
| **Zenodo record** | https://zenodo.org/records/21754241 |

## Files

- `white_line_combined.pdf` - Zenodo PDF

## Citation

> Daniel Ari Friedman (2026). *White Line: A Typed Ledger for the Edge of the Claim*. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21754241. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21754241.

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