Coherent Without Grounding, Grounded Without Success: Observability and Epistemic Failure

ArXi:2603.28371v1 Announce Type: cross When an agent can articulate why something works, we typically take this as evidence of genuine understanding. This presupposes that effective action and correct explanation covary, and that coherent explanation reliably signals both. I argue that this assumption fails for contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs). I