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.
Metaphysics — what exists and what it is to exist — causation, emergence and levels, laws, time — as a philosophical question (group: philosophy).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TERM-059 | relational normative realism, as frame-, order-, scale- and perspective-relative normative realism: the position that a normative judgment indexed to a frame, an organizational or reflective order, a scale, a perspective and a standard is correct or incorrect whatever the judge prefers, and that which frames, perspectives and standards are admissible is itself constrained, the second of which the record has not established | The owner’s name, U18 of the exchange of 2026-10-17: “so maybe something like a frame/order/scale/perspectival-relative normative realism?” A18 proposed “relational normative realism” as the short name and the owner’s wording “as its explicit technical characterization”, and split “order” into organizational and reflective order. The term names the position. It does not assert it. In particular its third condition, constraints on admissible perspectives, is unmet: without it the position is conditional objectivity, not realism about the standards themselves. The indexing is CLAIM-363’s thesis, and the realism about standards is QUESTION-129’s open question. | Active |
| TERM-087 v3 | cut, and which sense: a Cartesian cut, Pattee’s epistemic cut, or Barad’s agential cut, enacted by an apparatus | Three senses of “cut” the exchange of 2026-10-27 used, which A9 §4 said “are not interchangeable concepts”. The Cartesian cut is a separation of observer from observed taken as given before any measurement. Pattee’s epistemic cut (LIT-1190, read in NOTE-952) is the functional separation of symbolic description from the dynamics it measures or controls, and is epistemic, not ontological. Barad’s agential cut (read first-hand only in her 2012 essay, LIT-1869; LIT-1653 and LIT-1657 unavailable) is a differentiation enacted within a phenomenon by an apparatus, through which boundaries and properties become determinate. Proposed: the record had no word for them, and they recur in CLAIM-476. | Proposed |
| TERM-088 | individuation, and which sense: descriptive (an inquiry can distinguish and track it), dynamical (its organization persists under specified dynamics and perturbation, with robust identity and boundaries), constitutive (its relational organization helps fix its identity and boundary), and organizational autonomy, the further achievement of contributing to the maintenance of its own constitutive constraints | A18 of the exchange of 2026-10-27 named four claims about a candidate individual and said they “are neither four necessary stages nor four universally ranked degrees of existence. They are different claims requiring different evidence”. A23 §VI split them further. The owner’s second review insisted that individuation not be read as requiring endogenous maintenance: “A persistent externally sustained pattern may still be a dynamically individuated entity.” This term lists the senses so that a claim saying “individual” says which. Organizational autonomy is TERM-070’s closure, named here as the sense it is not. Proposed. | Proposed |
| TERM-093 v3 | correspondence structure, and how it is held: the maps that say which local states or descriptions of interacting systems count as agreeing, distinct from the physical coupling between them, and held as formed, discovered or adapted | The object CLAIM-471, QUESTION-282, CLAIM-474 and CASE-179 all turn on. It is a family of comparison maps from local descriptions into shared spaces, whose joint kernel (the global sections) is what “compatible” and “glued” mean. It is not the coupling that moves the states. How a correspondence structure is held is one of three ways: formed by physical interconnection, discovered by measurement, or adapted by an apparatus. A claim using “gluing” should say which. Adopted at the thirteenth status review, once the formed sense was stated as the maps that wiring sets and not the joint behaviour they admit. | Active |