Legend (IP status markers):
Tier classification:
Rule: Definitions describe structural relations and claim boundaries. They do not provide measurement procedures, thresholds, or operational instructions.
1) Admissibility — [PUBLIC] [P] A condition that restricts what can be asserted or continued under finite resolution. It is a boundary concept, not a metric and not an instruction.
2) Observer-only — [PUBLIC] [G] A posture in which outputs do not prescribe actions, optimize outcomes, or escalate authority. Outputs may be descriptive or structural, but not directive.
3) Non-authoritative — [PUBLIC] [G] Outputs are not warrants for action, correctness, or ground truth—only bounded descriptions under stated limits.
4) Finite resolution — [PUBLIC] [P] A statement that observation and representation occur with limited granularity (time, bandwidth, sampling, precision). This limits what can be concluded.
5) Boundary — [PUBLIC] [P] A declared exclusion region: what claims are forbidden, what is refused, and what cannot be upgraded.
6) Continuation — [PUBLIC] [P] The claim that sufficient declared structure remains available for carry through bounded passage. At the level of claim discipline, a continuation claim is permitted or refused. Continuation does not establish that carry occurred.
7) Refusal — [PUBLIC] [P] A permitted outcome where the system declines to produce an output or declines to extend claims beyond allowed scope.
8) Identity claim — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-2.5; see also CG-FN-5 and CG-FN-6) A bounded sameness-claim that may become admissible over supported persistence under declared bounds. Identity is not pointwise resemblance, continuation, continuity, or persistence alone.
9) Snapshot — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-2.5; see also CG-FN-1 for continuation regimes) An instant claim. A snapshot may exhibit pointwise resemblance at a time index under a particular view, but it does not, by itself, establish continuation, persistence, or identity.
10) Snapshot-to-identity prohibition — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-2.5; see also CG-FN-1 for continuation regimes) The program refuses any interpretation that upgrades snapshot resemblance into identity, continuity, or persistence. When persistence cannot be supported under declared bounds, snapshot resemblance remains insufficient for identity purposes.
11) Regime — [PUBLIC] [P] A region of behavior or stability defined by what remains structurally continuous under finite resolution, without specifying the underlying mechanism.
12) Coherence — [CONTROLLED] [P] A controlled technical parent term for how strongly a system holds together under perturbation and limited observation. Public surfaces should generally use structural continuity as the non-operational synonym unless a bounded technical bridge is explicitly required. No operational measure is defined here.
12a) Structural continuity — [PUBLIC] [D] The public, non-operational rendering of controlled coherence language. Structural continuity describes whether relations among states or configurations remain composable across bounded passage under perturbation and limited observation. It does not by itself establish persistence. It defines no metric, score, threshold, or measurement procedure. Use this term on public doctrine and ZOA framework surfaces when no operational definition is intended.
13) Deviation — [CONTROLLED] [D] A categorical notion of drift relative to a reference structure. No computation rules are defined here.
14) Curvature (stability basin) — [CONTROLLED] [D] A geometric metaphor for local robustness/fragility. This surface does not provide formulas or estimation procedures.
15) Marker — [CONTROLLED] [D] A non-directive indicator that something is changing. Markers are not triggers and must not be mapped into actions.
16) Threshold — [PUBLIC] [G] (prohibited in Stage-0 doctrine) A numeric trigger boundary. This program explicitly avoids threshold-driven control surfaces in public doctrine.
17) Instrumentation — [PUBLIC] [G] Any process that turns observations into action-authorizing signals. Instrumentation is excluded from declarative surfaces.
18) Optimization — [PUBLIC] [G] A process that selects actions to maximize an objective. Optimization is excluded from observer-only posture.
19) Control — [PUBLIC] [G] Any closed-loop action selection that modifies a system to achieve a target. Control is excluded from observer-only posture.
20) Operationalization — [PUBLIC] [G] The act of turning a concept into a procedure, implementation, or recipe. Operationalization is out of scope here.
21) Jurisdiction — [PUBLIC] [P] The declared boundary of what a document or system claims authority over (and what it refuses).
22) Receipt / Receiptable — [PUBLIC] [P] A minimal provenance record that ties a claim to declared view families, bounds, and window semantics, sufficient for audit and refusal.
23) Claimability — [PUBLIC] [D] A classification of what may be asserted under declared bounds: only repeatable structure under bounded perturbation is claimable in Stage-0.
24) Governance event — [PUBLIC] [G] Any change that could expand scope, weaken exclusions, or enable operational inference. Governance events require review and explicit rationale.
25) Admissible evolution — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-2.5) Evolution of a system that remains within declared admissibility constraints. Identity and persistence are defined with respect to admissible evolution, not arbitrary state change.
26) Persistence — [PUBLIC] [P] (see CG-PN-2.5) A declared distinction that remains supportable and reassertable after passage under stated bounds. Persistence is not proximity, similarity, matching at an instant, or identity.
27) Observation window — [PUBLIC] [P] (see CG-PN-2.5) A declared interval (temporal, sequential, or parametric) within which passage claims are bounded. Identity claims depend on supported persistence across such bounds, not on a single time index.
28) Pointwise resemblance — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-2.5) Resemblance at a single time index or instant. Pointwise resemblance may preserve apparent structure but does not, by itself, establish continuation, persistence, or identity. Synonym: snapshot resemblance. See Snapshot (#9) and Snapshot-to-identity prohibition (#10).
29) Continuation regime — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-FN-1) A declared region of behavior within which sufficient declared structure may remain available for carry and a continuation claim may be permitted. A continuation regime does not establish carry, continuity, persistence, or identity.
30) Closure (under admissible iteration) — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-FN-1) The property that repeated application of admissible evolution does not exit the declared regime. Closure is a structural constraint, not a verification procedure.
31) Admissible iteration — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-FN-1) A single step of evolution that remains within declared admissibility bounds. Iterated admissible steps may or may not preserve continuation; this depends on closure.
32) Anchor ladder — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-FN-1) A taxonomic ordering of receiptable weight classes (e.g., snapshot < window < regime). The ladder describes categorical distinctions, not scoring rules or numeric thresholds.
33) Bounded observability — [PUBLIC] [D] (see Claim Rules) The declared limits of what is observable within a statement, including explicit unknowns and explicit out-of-scope regions.
34) Irreversibility — [PUBLIC] [P] (see Claim Rules) A one-way commitment created by continuation, disclosure, or action, named when plausible without asserting mechanism or mitigation.
35) Claim — [PUBLIC] [P] (see Claim Rules) A statement that hardens into implied authority or downstream dependence. Claims are treated as expensive under CRL-0 posture.
36) Stop condition — [PUBLIC] [G] (see Claim Rules) The explicit point at which claims must stop. Stop conditions are required language, not optional caution.
37) Narrative — [PUBLIC] [D] Interpretation offered around a record. Narrative may exist, but governance does not depend on it.
38) Record — [PUBLIC] [P] A bounded trace attached to a claim, preserving scope and absences without persuasion.
39) Governance primitive — [PUBLIC] [G] (see Claim Rules) A first-class boundary behavior (e.g., refusal, stop condition, receipts) that constrains continuation without asserting control.
40) Archive edition — [PUBLIC] [G] A reissued citable record with a short preface stating scope, refusals, and version pin.
41) Hierarchy (Constraint Physics) — [PUBLIC] [D] (see docs/HIERARCHY.md) A field-level ordering of primitives and dependent terms used to discipline claims. Not a derivation. Not a mechanism. Not a model. The ordering:
42) Continuity — [PUBLIC] [P] (see docs/HIERARCHY.md) The bounded relation among states or configurations across passage under which admissible ordering remains composable. Continuity does not by itself establish persistence, identity, smoothness, or a mechanism.
43) Boundary Fixture — [PUBLIC] [D] A domain where admissibility boundaries are known to exist, used as a structural stress test for claim language. No solving posture. Not a target; a reference fixture.
44) Calibration Anchor — [PUBLIC] [D] A boundary fixture used specifically to stabilize admissibility vocabulary. Reference landmarks for claim discipline. Not an optimization objective.
45) Multiplicity (pre-settlement) — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-3.5) The condition in which multiple admissible trajectories may exist prior to settlement within an observation window. Multiplicity describes the geometry of admissible continuation before a claim is finalized. Multiplicity does not alter the binary nature of continuation.
46) Settlement — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-3.5) The point at which a continuation decision resolves into a single receiptable claim. Settlement selects one trajectory within the admissible manifold. Only settled claims are receiptable.
47) Singular claim — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-3.5) A claim referring to one trajectory following settlement. Claims remain singular even when multiplicity exists prior to settlement.
48) Dynamic admissible space — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-3.5) The region of admissible continuation available under current constraints and bounded observability. This region may expand or contract as regimes, boundaries, or observation limits change. Admissible space is structural and time-dependent.
49) Constraint load — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-3.5) The accumulated structural demand placed on a boundary by constraints, interactions, or regime conditions. Constraint load may alter admissible continuation without specifying measurement or thresholds.
50) Disturbance projection — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-3.5) The mapping of a shared disturbance into subsystem-specific constraint violations. Local failures may represent projections of a common upstream disturbance. Errors occur when projected disturbance intersects subsystem constraints in an inadmissible way.
51) Settlement window — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-3.5) The portion of an observation window in which multiplicity must resolve into a singular claim or refusal.
52) Admissible manifold — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-PN-3.5) The set of trajectories permitted under current admissibility constraints within an observation window. Multiplicity describes the geometry of this manifold prior to settlement.
Vocabulary tokens made publicly visible by the Admissibility Reading Posture view. Section headers in the stack remain section headers and are not promoted into doctrine primitives here.
53) Identity — [PUBLIC] [P] A bounded sameness-claim that may become admissible over supported persistence under declared bounds. Identity is not pointwise resemblance, continuation, continuity, or persistence alone. See also #8 Identity claim.
54) Memory — [PUBLIC] [P] A primitive distinction describing the structural condition under which past content remains carryable into a later observation. The term is a vocabulary token; no storage mechanism, retrieval procedure, or capacity claim is implied.
55) Encoded persistence — [PUBLIC] [D] A relation governing primitives: the condition under which a primitive distinction is held in a way that survives admissible evolution. Structural condition only; no encoding scheme, format, or measurement is defined here.
56) Boundary coupling — [PUBLIC] [D] A relation governing primitives: the way primitive distinctions are coupled to declared boundaries. Structural relation only; no interface specification, protocol, or signaling rule is defined here.
57) Transport — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-FN-4) A transition-and-carry concept: the structural condition for moving a distinction across an observation window without violating admissibility. Names a boundary, not a transfer mechanism or routing procedure.
58) Carry — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-FN-4) A transition-and-carry concept: the structural relation by which a distinction remains receiptable under admissible evolution. Carry is a claimability discipline; it does not assert preservation of identity, authority, capability, intent, interpretation, legitimacy, or continuation by default.
59) Bounded structural access — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-P-0-A) A domain invariant: the declared limit on what structural content is accessible under finite resolution. Names a boundary; not an access protocol, permission system, or query interface.
60) Universal coupling constraint — [PUBLIC] [D] A domain invariant: a categorical constraint on how primitives couple under admissibility. Describes structural ordering; not a numerical constant or measurable coupling.
61) Resolution-depth constraint — [PUBLIC] [D] A domain invariant: the declared limit on resolution-depth pairs admissible within the boundary. Names a structural exclusion; not a depth setting, sampling rule, or resolution parameter.
62) Contracted view — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-P-VIII) A resolution effect: a view in which observable structure is contracted relative to admissible structure. Categorical; not a parameter setting or filter configuration.
63) Appearance class — [PUBLIC] [D] (see CG-P-VIII) A resolution effect: a category of how structure appears under a particular contracted view. Descriptive category; not a score, signature, or feature vector.
64) Projection / coarse-graining — [PUBLIC] [D] A resolution effect: the structural relation that collapses admissible structure into a contracted view. Names a category of relation; not a transformation, mask, or filter definition.
65) Apparent irreversibility — [PUBLIC] [D] A resolution effect: irreversibility observed under a contracted view that may not hold in the admissible substrate. Categorical observation; not a measurement or rate.
66) Observer window — [PUBLIC] [D] A bounded subsystem concept: the declared region within which a bounded subsystem observes. Structural; not a temporal duration setting or sampling interval. See also #27 Observation window.
67) Agency — [CONTROLLED] [D] A bounded subsystem term describing categorical capacity for admissible action within an observer window. Public surfaces should treat as conceptual posture only; no measurement procedure, scoring, or authority claim is defined here.
68) Macro freedom — [CONTROLLED] [D] A bounded subsystem term describing categorical room for variation within admissible constraints. Public surfaces should treat as conceptual posture only; no degrees-of-freedom count, optimization, or capacity claim is defined here.
69) Ledger cost — [CONTROLLED] [D] A conceptual cost label for the structural burden of remaining defined. Not an accounting construct, measurement, budget, or rate. No units or thresholds are defined here.
70) Boundary rent — [CONTROLLED] [D] A conceptual cost label for the structural burden imposed by maintaining a boundary. Not an accounting construct, measurement, budget, or rate. No units or thresholds are defined here.
71) Constraint affordability — [CONTROLLED] [D] A conceptual label for whether a constraint can be sustained under bounded observation. No affordability metric, budget, scoring, or evaluation rule is defined here.
The following terms are sub-lineage vocabulary for the Temporal Relational Substrate Series, made publicly visible by the Admissibility Reading Posture view. They present bounded-learning placement vocabulary under finite resolution.
72) Temporal Relational Substrate Series — [PUBLIC] [G] (sub-lineage) A sub-lineage family that examines learning relative to admissibility discipline. The series name controls catalog placement.
73) Object-first learning — [PUBLIC] [D] (TRS sub-lineage; see CG-P-0-B) A sub-lineage posture treating objects as bounded, receiptable structures before downstream explanation or prediction. It frames learning claims through object placement and admissibility discipline.
74) Situated object — [PUBLIC] [D] (TRS sub-lineage) A sub-lineage concept for an object considered together with its declared frame and admissibility limits.
75) Bounded frame — [PUBLIC] [D] (TRS sub-lineage; see CG-P-0-B) A sub-lineage concept for the declared frame within which a situated object is observed.
76) Frame transit — [PUBLIC] [D] (TRS sub-lineage) A sub-lineage concept for the structural condition of crossing frames within the Temporal Relational Substrate Series.
77) Carried object identity — [PUBLIC] [D] (TRS sub-lineage; see CG-P-0-B, CG-FN-4) A sub-lineage concept for the condition under which a bounded identity claim remains supportable across bounded frames.
78) Transfer horizon — [PUBLIC] [D] (TRS sub-lineage; see CG-FN-4.5) A sub-lineage concept for the declared limit beyond which transfer ceases to be claimable.
| Revision | Changes |
|---|---|
| 2026-07 canonical alignment | Aligned continuation, continuity, persistence, and identity with the claim-dependency separation consolidated in CG-FN-6. |