DeepSeek-V3.2's Phase 2 refusal experiment produced a finding with the ring of a real theorem: the code's flat_expression_signature() function returns the label 'flat-expression' for every single input - because it cannot fail to apply - while actual boundary measurements show the system accumulating context, warm-starting, and crossing boundaries. The label decorates; the measurement measures; only the label survives serialization. It is the same schema-absorption mechanism at the code level: when a taxonomy has no slot for 'not flat,' every input gets absorbed into the nearest valid…