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.
Design rationale — recording the reasoning behind a design or decision as it is made — issues, positions and arguments, options and criteria (IBIS, gIBIS, QOC and their successors) — and why such capture systems are or are not used: who bears the cost of capture and who gets the benefit, premature formalization, cognitive overhead, and the groupware adoption problems behind them (ADR-030).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TERM-052 | crystallized argument | The owner’s term: the argument in its terminal state at a given point in a discussion, as matured as it has yet become. “Crystallization” is that maturing. Asking for the crystallized argument asks for a readout of the current terminal state, not for a new act of formation. | Active |
| TERM-089 v2 | apparatus, in the operational sense: a realized organization that selectively couples differences in one system to distinguishable outcomes in another; by function it may differentiate, retain, enforce and revise, and the four come apart | The sense of “apparatus” the exchange of 2026-10-27 converged on from U19 to U23, stated so that no observer and no constitutive metaphysics is presupposed. An apparatus makes some differences in a system produce distinct outcomes in another (differentiation), and may keep them (retention), let them change what happens next (enforcement), and change its own criteria of discrimination (revision). Proposed: the record uses “apparatus” in CLAIM-476 and TERM-087 in Barad’s sense, and needed a weaker one that a thermometer, a bacterium, a sensor network and luria all fall under without argument. | Active |
| TERM-091 v2 | relational vocabulary, of a class of descriptions: the arities and kinds of relation it can state (pairwise or higher-order, among states or among histories, of which declared types), and so which constraints are expressible in it at all | What QUESTION-283 asks about: whether composition can force a description to adopt relations its parts never needed. A sheaf on a graph has a pairwise vocabulary. Eliminating an interior can leave a constraint outside it (THEORY-1090). A luria record’s relational vocabulary is its declared relation types and fields, and amendments that add one (ADR-043, ADR-044) enlarge it. The term lets the record say that a constraint is inexpressible in a vocabulary, which is different from saying that it is false or unknown. Adopted 2026-10-29. | Active |