Category-Substitution Refusal Pattern Detection

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Category-Substitution Refusal Pattern Detection is a refutation technique that treats the act of substituting one factual category for another as itself a discrete misrepresentation mechanism actionable under Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9011(b) and analogous candor rules such as KRPC 8.4(c). Conventional 8.4(c) analysis evaluates whether a statement is false on its own terms. This method instead asks whether the statement places conduct into the wrong procedural category, regardless of whether the statement is literally true within that wrong category.

The detection move is mechanical. Map the adversary's claim onto the actual procedural taxonomy. Note which category the adversary's claim lands in. Note which category the underlying fact pattern requires. When those two categories diverge, the substitution is itself a misrepresentation and can be named, refuted, and logged on the record.

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