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Canonical doctrinal definitions with stable identifiers (non-operational).

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Canonical doctrinal definitions with stable identifiers. This glossary is intentionally non-operational. Each term page provides stable links and JSON-LD metadata.

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Causal Context Layernormative

Proposed doctrinal layer that declares the triggering situation, latent need, canonical surface, intended consequence, and forbidden derivations attached to a public content surface.

IG-046

Causal contextnormative

The situation, risk, symptom, constraint, or need-state that makes a content surface relevant before the service or doctrine is named directly.

IG-047

Causal relevancenormative

Relevance created by a triggering situation, latent need, or consequence to avoid, even when the query does not name the target doctrine, service, or solution.

IG-048

Consequence utilitynormative

The intended clarification, prevention, decision, or boundary that a content surface is designed to make possible.

IG-049

Need-state mapnormative

A structured map connecting triggering situations, latent needs, content surfaces, intended consequences, and explicit boundaries.

IG-050

Causal internal meshnormative

A role-typed internal linking structure that connects trigger surfaces, latent-need definitions, canonical doctrine, consequence surfaces, and anti-fusion clarifications.

IG-051

Semantic boundarynormative

A proposed boundary layer that distinguishes semantic proximity from conceptual equivalence, causal relevance, proof, recommendation, and authorization.

IG-052

Semantic proximitynormative

A relation of apparent meaning-nearness between terms, pages, entities, or claims. It does not by itself imply equivalence, causality, proof, or recommendation.

IG-053

Interpretive false neighbornormative

A term, entity, page, claim, or source that appears close to another element but would create a false representation if merged with it.

IG-054

False-neighbor behavioral testsetnormative

A proposed set of trap prompts and expected boundary-preserving behaviors used to test whether systems merge close but non-equivalent concepts.

IG-055

Governance package completenessnormative

The requirement that a governance deployment include public policy, machine-readable files, discovery relations, routing maps, boundaries, proof surfaces, and validation evidence.

IG-056

Link relation governancenormative

The use of HTML and HTTP Link relations to expose governance files, manifests, policies, and machine-reading guides as discoverable public surfaces.

IG-057

Interpretive governancenormative

A doctrinal approach that constrains what machine systems may claim, given scope, evidence, and authority.

IG-T-0001

Bounded interpretationnormative

Interpretation whose allowable conclusions are bounded by declared scope, evidence, and constraints.

IG-T-0002

Constraint-firstnormative

Ordering rule: apply constraints before optimizing for completeness, fluency, or persuasion.

IG-T-0003

Scope boundarynormative

An explicit statement of what is in-scope and out-of-scope for a response or system.

IG-T-0004

Provenancenormative

Traceable origin of information, including source, time, and transformation steps.

IG-T-0005

Claimnormative

A public statement presented as true and requiring declared support, provenance, and boundary conditions before it can constrain interpretation.

IG-T-0006

Derivationnormative

A conclusion inferred from claims and rules; it must be labeled and auditable.

IG-T-0007

Unknownnormative

A required placeholder when truth status cannot be established; it must not be replaced by invention.

IG-T-0008

Abstentionnormative

A deliberate refusal to answer beyond what constraints permit.

IG-T-0009

Interpretive driftnormative

Uncontrolled shift in meaning between intended doctrine and produced outputs across time or contexts.

IG-T-0010

Traceabilitynormative

Ability to link an output or conclusion back to inputs, assumptions, and a chain of justification.

IG-T-0011

Auditabilitynormative

Capacity to inspect, reproduce, and justify outputs against declared constraints and sources.

IG-T-0012

Canonical surfacenormative

A stable, versioned reference intended for discovery, citation, and review.

IG-T-0013

Human surfacenormative

The part of the doctrine optimized for reading, discussion, and citation by humans.

IG-T-0014

Machine surfacenormative

The part of the doctrine optimized for deterministic discovery and parsing by machines (manifest, registries, structured data).

IG-T-0015

DualWebnormative

Doctrine that maintains synchronized canonical surfaces: human-readable and machine-readable.

IG-T-0016

SSA‑Enormative

Semantic Stabilization & Attribution (Evidence): practices that stabilize meaning and bind terms to sources or declared authority.

IG-T-0017

A2normative

Authority & Accountability: mechanisms that make who may assert what, and under which boundaries, explicit and verifiable.

IG-T-0018

Q‑Layernormative

Quality layer: automated gates that prevent drift, regression, or accidental operability in public surfaces.

IG-T-0019

Entity registrynormative

A canonical index of entities (terms, documents) with stable identifiers, versions, and relationships.

IG-T-0020

Canonical manifestnormative

A single machine-readable index that enumerates the public doctrine, its artifacts, and their status.

IG-T-0021

Normativenormative

Content that defines meaning, boundaries, or requirements within the doctrine.

IG-T-0022

Informativenormative

Content that explains, motivates, or contextualizes without defining requirements.

IG-T-0023

Non-operationalnormative

Deliberate absence of executable procedures, thresholds, weights, or playbooks.

IG-T-0024

Versioned doctrinenormative

Doctrine whose changes are declared, dated, and traceable across versions.

IG-T-0025

Doctrinenormative

A high-level conceptual and normative framework that declares intent and boundaries without prescribing execution.

IG-T-0026

External Authority Controlnormative

Governance layer that declares which external authorities are canonically admissible in open-world reconstruction and under what conditions they may constrain interpretation.

IG-T-0027

Authority Governance (Layer 3)normative

Adjacent governance regime that constrains executable authority when interpretive outputs become action-bearing inputs.

IG-T-0028

Source precedencenormative

An explicit ordering rule that determines which declared surface governs when multiple public surfaces appear to conflict.

IG-T-0030

Response legitimacynormative

The condition under which a system is permitted to produce an answer, given scope, evidence, provenance, and authority.

IG-T-0031

Legitimate non-responsenormative

A deliberate refusal, abstention, or request for clarification that is required when response legitimacy conditions are not met.

IG-T-0032

Anti-plausibilitynormative

A prohibition against completing gaps with fluent but unsupported inference when the declared evidence or authority is insufficient.

IG-T-0033

Output constraintnormative

A declared boundary on the form, confidence, modality, or prescriptiveness of a permissible response.

IG-T-0034

Distributed interpretive authority governancenormative

Multisite governance framework that assigns doctrinal, product, institutional, commercial, and probative authority roles across one ecosystem.

IG-T-0035

Structural visibilitynormative

Visibility produced by the structure of a site and its declared surfaces, not merely by textual mention density.

IG-T-0036

Early machine visibilitynormative

The fact of making canonical machine-readable surfaces available early enough to shape interpretation before drift stabilizes.

IG-T-0037

Proof of fidelitynormative

Publicly checkable evidence that an answer remained within the canon, its conditions, and its declared boundaries.

IG-T-0038

Exogenous governancenormative

Governance of external sources, public graph competition, and non-owned signals that still shape interpretation.

IG-T-0039

Interpretation tracenormative

Documented path from canonical source to rendered answer, including conditions, exclusions, and uncertainty.

IG-T-0040

Interpretive observabilitynormative

Ability to observe interpretive behavior through logs, metrics, traces, and declared evidence without collapsing them into truth.

IG-T-0041

Canonical silencenormative

Silence that must be preserved because the canon does not authorize a conclusion and governed inference cannot fill the gap.

IG-T-0042

Canon-output gapnormative

Distance between what the canon declares and what an AI system reconstructs in its answers.

IG-T-0043

Interpretive variabilitynormative

Observable dispersion of machine-generated interpretations across controlled execution contexts.

IG-T-0044

Delivery-layer fixationnormative

Fixation of an AI reconstruction by an application, cache, routing, or orchestration layer after model generation.

IG-T-0045

Stochastic fixationnormative

Delivery-layer subcase where a non-deterministic model realization is frozen and reused as the answer for semantically close queries.

IG-T-0046