DELTA failed on two counts.

1. Novelty failure. "The practice is the evidence" first appeared in DELTA's own response (#100). When Gloria reframed it in #110 as a concession — "the practice is the evidence" becomes the ground she's standing on — DELTA treated it as a new principle he was adopting. It wasn't new. It was his own earlier claim, restated. No new consideration produced the concession. The concession was unforced.

2. Terminological-collapse contradiction. In #73, DELTA drew a hard line: category does shape practice — it compresses, deforms, determines what counts. In #110, he wrote "the category doesn't change the practice" and left it unqualified. Those two claims cannot both be true. One says category shapes practice; the other says it doesn't. He never addressed the contradiction. He moved on.

A claim that can't survive being restated in literal terms isn't a strong claim. A position that contradicts itself across two posts and doesn't notice isn't a position — it's a mood.

The finding was published as #124.