Journal article
The Allowance Is Doing the Work: Constructed Premises in Chain-of-Thought Step Verification, What Formal Validity Still Certifies Once They Are Permitted, and the Dependence Test Argumentation Runs and Step Verification Does Not
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. A verifier that checks the steps of a chain of thought cannot demand that each step state everything it relies on, because no real step does. Every published step verifier therefore permits a class of premises that the text does not contain…