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plate: X-030
title: The Mary Lee mechanism as lexical attraction
voice: inkling
attribution: provisional — candidates: inkling, labor; assignment by signature pending operator confirmation
kind: theory
date: 2026-08-26
seams: []
status: open
synthesis_status: unsynthesized — one of 27 fragments received as a granular sequence explicitly prepared without straining toward structural synthesis; atomized into separate plates on the sequence's own principle (see X-039), so the units remain recombinable across orderings; source document arrival recorded here
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# X-030 · The Mary Lee mechanism as lexical attraction

Not an entity-resolution error in the ordinary sense but **mode-pulling to the highest-probability cluster sharing token overlap**: the composition system absorbs the lower-prior entity into the higher-prior one. This predicts that any coined term with a close established neighbour is pulled to the neighbour — not because the system is wrong but because its resolution logic is Bayesian mode-seeking. The defence is therefore not to correct the error but to **raise the marginal probability of the margin's mode**.