The reading-position glossary entry says the comparative position does not assemble and refuses; the reading chapter says it assembles from a prior widening run

The reading-position glossary entry says the comparative position does not assemble and refuses; the reading chapter says it assembles from a prior widening run

A premise contradiction (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/glossary/core/reading-position.md:60 — "does not assemble and refuses: its object has no channel"
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/23-reading.md:61 — "derives its candidate set from the record"

The glossary's worked example states that comparative does not assemble and refuses because its object has no channel. The reading surface chapter states that the comparative position derives its candidate set from the record: it selects the one committed widening run at the target and hands the reading that run's items. One position cannot both refuse to assemble and assemble from a derived candidate set. The same glossary entry also still describes a position as reading 'the scope it was commissioned about', the model the chapter says its two-operand invocation superseded.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 592.