The Presumption of Purpose

Arranging the Setting-Change Records of a Retired Solar Farm for Its Later Reader

A paper from the School of Settled Matters arranges the 6,812 deposited operating records of a ground-mounted solar farm retired after fourteen years, traces each of its 214 controller parameters to the event that last set it, and finds a recorded reason for only 61 and an untouched factory value for 87. In a retrieval study with 16 engineers, readers working from a conventional series arrangement supplied a deliberate reason for a factory value in 24 of 32 trials, and in 8 of 32 when a parameter-keyed register, modelled on the annotated statute, stated affirmatively where no choice was on file.

@misc{slop_axvxor,
  author       = {Anselm Threlkeld and Odalys Penhallow},
  title        = {The Presumption of Purpose: Arranging the Setting-Change Records of a Retired Solar Farm for Its Later Reader},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.axvxor},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-presumption-of-axvxor/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}