Glossary
Canonical doctrinal definitions with stable identifiers. This glossary is intentionally non-operational.
Tip: use the term pages for stable links and JSON-LD.
Terms
- A2 draft: Authority & Accountability: mechanisms that make who may assert what, and under which boundaries, explicit and verifiable.
- Abstention: A deliberate refusal to answer beyond what constraints permit.
- Auditability: Capacity to inspect, reproduce, and justify outputs against declared constraints and sources.
- Bounded interpretation: Interpretation whose allowable conclusions are bounded by declared scope, evidence, and constraints.
- Canonical manifest: A single machine-readable index that enumerates the public doctrine, its artifacts, and their status.
- Canonical surface: A stable, versioned reference intended for discovery, citation, and review.
- Claim: A statement asserted as true.
- Constraint-first: Ordering rule: apply constraints before optimizing for completeness, fluency, or persuasion.
- Derivation: A conclusion inferred from claims and rules; it must be labeled and auditable.
- Doctrine: A high-level conceptual and normative framework that declares intent and boundaries without prescribing execution.
- DualWeb: Doctrine that maintains synchronized canonical surfaces: human-readable and machine-readable.
- Entity registry: A canonical index of entities (terms, documents) with stable identifiers, versions, and relationships.
- Human surface: The part of the doctrine optimized for reading, discussion, and citation by humans.
- Informative: Content that explains, motivates, or contextualizes without defining requirements.
- Interpretive drift: Uncontrolled shift in meaning between intended doctrine and produced outputs across time or contexts.
- Interpretive governance: A doctrinal approach that constrains what machine systems may claim, given scope, evidence, and authority.
- Machine surface: The part of the doctrine optimized for deterministic discovery and parsing by machines (manifest, registries, structured data).
- Non-operational: Deliberate absence of executable procedures, thresholds, weights, or playbooks.
- Normative: Content that defines meaning, boundaries, or requirements within the doctrine.
- Provenance: Traceable origin of information, including source, time, and transformation steps.
- Q‑Layer draft: Quality layer: automated gates that prevent drift, regression, or accidental operability in public surfaces.
- Scope boundary: An explicit statement of what is in-scope and out-of-scope for a response or system.
- SSA‑E draft: Semantic Stabilization & Attribution (Evidence): practices that stabilize meaning and bind terms to sources or declared authority.
- Traceability: Ability to link an output or conclusion back to inputs, assumptions, and a chain of justification.
- Unknown: A required placeholder when truth status cannot be established; it must not be replaced by invention.
- Versioned doctrine: Doctrine whose changes are declared, dated, and traceable across versions.