Works — A manuscript the record’s claims are marshalled into. Membership says a claim is in the work; whether the record believes it is the status, and the two disagree (ADR-032).
The Organization of Will — the owner’s essay, drafted 2026-10-04 to 2026-10-06: will-organization as the agent-indexed organization of practical efficacy, and why effective will is precarious.
16 of 547 CLAIM documents. Back to the full index.
| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLAIM-018 v3 | Canguilhem’s distinction between functioning under a norm and capacity for norm-changing adaptation corresponds to transformation capacity | An interpretation, not a premise (Section 6.8): “Nor does the present argument depend upon importing Canguilhem’s account into viability theory.” Its absence from the premises of ARG-007 is how the record says so. | Active |
| CLAIM-021 v2 | The mechanisms composing a will-organization are not novel | Conceded to CLAIM-024: the claimed novelty is a common explanatory role across realizers, not a mechanism (Sections 3.7, 7.1). | Active |
| CLAIM-022 v2 | Explaining practical efficacy does not settle whose the will is | Section 7.2, “No. The theory explains practical efficacy, not ownership.” What the authenticity line tried to supply, the paper now disclaims; QUESTION-011 holds the question. | Active |
| CLAIM-025 v3 | An operative regime, the governing organization among regimes, and the capacity to transform that organization can persist or fail separately | Section 6.2, from the emergency variant of Northstar. | Active |
| CLAIM-027 v4 | Which of an agent’s available regimes becomes effective depends on maintained relations — accessibility, precedence, persistence, jurisdiction, suspension and transformation — that are not reducible to the contents of the competing regimes, whatever mechanisms realize them | The paper’s central thesis, Active since the status review of 2026-10-28. The audit called it the strongest original contribution. The comparison with planning, executive control and institutional decision procedures it owed is now owed by CLAIM-487, the gain claim, which stays Proposed. | Active |
| CLAIM-032 v2 | Northstar’s internal procedures are not morally or historically analogous to the regime Fraenkel described | The caution the paper states before using Fraenkel (Section 5.6). As an objection to the inference it narrows the respect in which the analogy holds, to structure alone. | Active |
| CLAIM-047 | Possessing an action-generating regime is not the same as its being practically effective | The distinction the paper inherits from Frankfurt (THEORY-120) and generalizes beyond desires: the audit’s “established foundation”. | Active |
| CLAIM-057 | Precedence, jurisdiction and suspension can vary independently | Shown by the classification variants of Northstar (Sections 5.3–5.5): a formally absolute rule can be weak because another process controls entry into its domain. | Active |
| CLAIM-075 | Viability does not establish what ought to persist | Sections 6.10 and 7.3: “An unjust institution may be highly viable.” Viability licenses conditional functional judgment only. | Active |
| CLAIM-079 | Stability does not entail viability: a system can occupy a stable regime while losing access to trajectories that keep satisfying its constraints | Applied from viability theory (THEORY-134) and the stability/resilience distinction (THEORY-132) (Section 6.3). | Active |
| CLAIM-080 | The agent is independently warranted: the account asks how a given agent’s practical efficacy is organized, not what makes something an agent | The supposition that scopes the whole paper (Sections 1, 2, 7.4). Everything resting on it is conditional on it; Northstar is assumed to be an agent “for purposes of analysis”. | Active |
| CLAIM-086 v2 | A constraint may govern conduct without governing the conditions under which it remains authoritative | The structural lesson the paper takes from Fraenkel (Section 5.6), with two independent lines of support: the historical analogy and the constructed Northstar case. The audit’s “strong conceptual refinement”. | Active |
| CLAIM-099 | Maintaining a regime of effective action and maintaining the capacity to govern among regimes are not the same achievement | The paper’s main result (Section 6.11), concluded by ARG-007 from CLAIM-079 and CLAIM-025. The audit’s “strong conditional argument”. Canguilhem interprets it (CLAIM-018) and is deliberately not a premise. | Active |
| CLAIM-116 | Regulation, even higher-order regulation, does not establish a will | The boundary the paper draws against its own most-repeated objection: thermostats, adaptive controllers and organizationally closed systems regulate without warranting an agent. | Active |
| CLAIM-122 v3 | Will-organization is not one more higher-order preference: changing the conditions of efficacy changes behaviour while the competing preferences stay fixed | The reply to CLAIM-089 (Section 3.5), by precommitment in a person and escalation authority in a firm. | Active |
| CLAIM-487 | Describing the relations that decide which regime becomes effective as one will-organization, across realizers, explains something that planning theory, control theory, executive-control research and institutional theory each describing their own realizer does not | The explanatory-gain claim the paper stakes itself on, filed separately by the status review of 2026-10-28. It was carried by CLAIM-027’s standing without being one of its words, so CLAIM-024’s objection had no target of its own. CLAIM-021 concedes the mechanisms; this is what is left to show: that one description across realizers earns its keep. | Proposed |