Claim

The first line of Buddhism is that life is an illusion.

Type TEXTUAL · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 1303

Referenced 191 times: checked 3, looked up by assistants 0, viewed 135, shared 53. A count of attention, not evidence.

Topics

Scripture · 03192ed8 Theology · 03192ed8

Assessment

Contradicted

Score: 0.0823 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

3 of 4 review checks done · 3 counted

5 independent evidence lineages · review checks 3 of 4 · stability MEDIUM

Main unresolved issue: 8 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:28307154-b48e-8e94-bda6-145af4f1b9ec

Not yet independently audited.Evidence points both ways.A quoted passage from accesstoinsight.org was not found on the page when Galedra fetched it.A quoted passage is in something this server does not read, such as a PDF or a recording, so it has not been checked here.

Why?

Strongest counted support: All conditioned existence is to be seen as an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. weight 1.530000 evidence

Strongest counted contradiction: This Buddhist source identifies the first noble truth as dukkha (suffering/unsatisfactoriness), enumerating birth, aging, sickness, death, and related experiences; it does not identify the first teaching as the claim that life is an illusion. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: A speaker who identifies as Buddhist says the very first line in Buddhism is that life is an illusion.; The excerpt directly states that, according to the speaker, Buddhism’s very first line is that life is an illusion.

Review gaps: independence reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Leans contradicted.

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0.0823 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Contradicted · Review checks: 3 of 4 · stability MEDIUM · 8 sources, 5 independent lineages

Model ledger-default@0.3.0 (the default model, not the answer) · snapshot 27745 · trace sha256:47db47efc3831edb7783e5d0bbaf6831aa57911cf3c9bd5f86262ddab14a346f

Last changed at entry seq 13401; nothing logged since has borne on this claim.

How the number was reached

Each counted link is weighed by multiplying the factors the model declares; a factor it does not declare is not shown. Every factor name below links to what that number means.

Link	Working	Weight	Counted as
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1fc53159 contradict	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.800000	1.800000
4f567a07 support	relevance WEAK 0.2 × observation HEARSAY 0.1 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept 0c108632)
0c108632 support	relevance WEAK 0.2 × observation HEARSAY 0.1 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000
fbf46858 support	relevance STRONG 1.2 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.918000	0.918000
272d32b5 contradict	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.530000	1.530000
9dcdd3a9 contradict	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.530000	1.530000
a04fdfa4 support	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept 0c108632)

prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + -2.412000 (the counted weights) = -2.412000 → probability 0.0823

Under neighbouring settings of the same model: 0.1560 to 0.0417, a spread of 0.1143.

Half-even rounding, six places for weights and four for the probability. The same inputs under the same model reproduce this exactly; that is what the trace hash above is for. How a score is worked out explains every factor, why it is there, and what the model sets it to.

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Checked as part of

Statements this claim was broken out of. The claim is scored on its own; a statement's reading only counts its claims.

“The first line of Buddhism is that life is an illusion.” · 1 claim · 28 September 2026
“The first line of Buddhism is that life is an illusion.” · 1 claim · 21 September 2026
“The Navier–Stokes proof was produced by roughly 10,000 OpenAI agents working for about 88 hours.” · 15 claims · 20 September 2026

Evidence for

Ismail says the very first line in Buddhism is that life is an illusion.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance WEAK Steps 1 Counted

A personal characterisation of Buddhist doctrine; no text cited.
A speaker who identifies as Buddhist says the very first line in Buddhism is that life is an illusion.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance WEAK Steps 1 Counted

The passage matches the claim's wording, but the claim is typed TEXTUAL and the passage identifies no text, sutra or translation that this 'first line' comes from. It records one practitioner's characterisation of the tradition.
All conditioned existence is to be seen as an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.

From The essence of the Diamond Sutra | Tom Das Read 2026-09-22 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted
The Diamond Sutra teaches that all that has form is illusive and unreal.

From The essence of the Diamond Sutra | Tom Das Read 2026-09-22 Relevance STRONG Steps 1 Counted
The excerpt directly states that, according to the speaker, Buddhism’s very first line is that life is an illusion.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted

Evidence against

A canonical first-sermon translation opens by rejecting two extremes, not by calling life an illusion.

From Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion Read 2026-09-21 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted
The sermon states the first noble truth as stress, not illusion.

From Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion Read 2026-09-21 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted
This Buddhist source identifies the first noble truth as dukkha (suffering/unsatisfactoriness), enumerating birth, aging, sickness, death, and related experiences; it does not identify the first teaching as the claim that life is an illusion.

From 1. The Truth of Suffering Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

The source is a modern teaching edition quoting the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta; wording supports correcting the claim's characterization, not a blanket statement about every Buddhist school.

Qualifications

None.

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
5f972d4c		0c108632
8acb0da0		0c108632

Inferences

Concluded from

None.

Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

None. Edges are stored and displayed; v0.1 does not propagate probability across them.

Review checklist

Review checks: 3 of 4

3 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 OPPOSING EVIDENCE SEARCH · 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	yes	284106a6
opposing search done	yes	a521e7bc
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	yes	1fc53159, 272d32b5, 9dcdd3a9

Summary

Contradicted. The main support is: All conditioned existence is to be seen as an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. 7eabd0d8

Against that, contradiction: This Buddhist source identifies the first noble truth as dukkha (suffering/unsatisfactoriness), enumerating birth, aging, sickness, death, and related experiences; it does not identify the first teaching as the claim that life is an illusion. 8865a91a

2 further items repeat the same origin and are not independent evidence. 5f972d4c8acb0da0

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. a521e7bc

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found none. a521e7bc

Review checks: 3 of 4. coverage:28307154-b48e-8e94-bda6-145af4f1b9ec

Generated by stub-v0.1; every sentence cites graph ids.

Contribution history

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1303	APPENDED
1304	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
1369	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
3882	TASK_RESULT	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
4983	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 56fe4c61 (accepted)
4985	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 56fe4c61 (accepted)
7260	TASK_RESULT	by 8b5e81bf (accepted)
7954	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
13400	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 1efd24fe (accepted)

Score trace

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