Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Social ontology — what social facts, groups, institutions and social kinds are, and what makes them exist — collective intentionality, joint commitment, status functions, convention, social construction, and whether groups can be agents or minds (group: philosophy; ADR-017).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARG-043 | Bencherki’s checklist and daycare, one end state with opposite verdicts, show a normative judgment about an organization that depends on a history its end state does not show | From the connections pass of 2026-10-31 (CLAIM-518’s note of that date). In Bencherki 2017 (LIT-1901), the army presents two community-made services as its own. One is co-individuation, the other usurpation. The difference is who did the work and whether it is acknowledged, which the end state does not contain. Proposed: part of the difference lies in present attribution, and the cases come from a documentary whose framing Bencherki follows. | Proposed |
| ARG-044 | The MSF meeting reanalysed by Bencherki, Brummans and Vézy shows that an interaction can make available a way of relating its participants did not hold, and names the condition under which it lasts; it does not show that taking part comes before the reinterpretation | From the connections pass of 2026-10-31 (CLAIM-430’s note of that date). In the meeting, a request offers MSF a role its perspective refuses, and its representative redescribes MSF’s practice so that it can take part. That supports part 1, that an interaction can make available a way of relating. With Tsoukas and Chia’s condition of institutionalization it supports part 3. On part 2, that taking part comes before the reinterpretation, the episode runs the other way. Proposed. | Proposed |
| ARG-046 | Tsoukas and Chia’s reading of Total Quality in the US Navy is an organizational instance of changing efficacy while the competing proposals stay fixed | From the connections pass of 2026-10-31 (CLAIM-122’s note of that date). Junior officers’ suggestions were made before and after Total Quality; afterwards they “earned legitimacy”. That looks like CLAIM-122’s case at an organization’s scale. Rejected as evidence: the new template also changed what members noticed and proposed, so the proposals were not held fixed, and the rival, a change in what was preferred, is not excluded. | Rejected |
| ARG-047 | Bencherki, Brummans and Vézy’s “agency is a matter of perspective” supports the claim that perspectival, agential and institutional boundaries need not coincide | The first filing of LIT-1902 (NOTE-1484, “Bearing on the record”) read the paper’s perspectivism as “a version of” CLAIM-418. It is not. The paper’s “perspective” (p. 1357) is the analyst’s choice of where to cut a chain of agencies, Barad’s agential cut. CLAIM-418’s is an organizational perspective, TERM-072 sense 1, which an agent may have, share or act through. The sentence bears on CLAIM-405, which says whether an individuation verdict is relative to a criterion, and not on CLAIM-418. Rejected. Where these readings do bear on CLAIM-418 is Bencherki 2017’s Table 1 (LIT-1901, p. 787), which is another source. | Rejected |
| ARG-048 | Tsoukas and Chia’s radial extension and institutionalization show how the exercise of a shared perspective can transform it with no agent governing the change, the agents and the institution kept distinct | From the connections pass of 2026-10-31 (CLAIM-418’s note of that date). Tsoukas and Chia (LIT-1913) give a mechanism for CLAIM-418’s third part: applying an institutionalized category to a nonprototypical case extends and transforms it, and whether the extension becomes the organization’s depends on institutionalization, which can fail. Proposed: the readings argue and illustrate with others’ ethnographies, and are Proposed themselves. A second line for an Active claim, not its ground. | Proposed |