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Corrected continuation

What should return to the beginning after a learner can understand, compare, and act?

Completion is not closure against correction. The explanation returns to its first question with sources, consequences, limits, and revisions preserved, so the next inquiry begins from a changed state rather than repeating the old one.

These are reference views of a concept. For the explanation in order, follow the complete narration with its constructions.

Corrected continuation visual relationThe journey returns changed

Identity boundary

Inside and outside exist here only through their relation.

The roles move when the selected identity or scale changes. This page declares the current reference instead of pretending the labels are absolute.

I

Inside

The current source, model, and identity of the theory.

R

Relation

A recoverable correction path that can change the source without erasing lineage.

O

Outside

New evidence, objections, experiences, and other observers.

Y-Engine operation

Follow the change, not just the noun.

  1. 01
    Receives

    A source-bound question, critique, test, relation, or correction.

  2. 02
    Changes

    The affected claims and explanations are compared under the same referent and conditions.

  3. 03
    Retains

    Raw wording, provenance, prior state, decision, and reason.

  4. 04
    Returns

    An approved correction, a bounded proposal, a rejection with evidence, or an explicit open question.

△ ○ ∿

Geometry lens

See the relation as form and movement.

The final line curves back to the beginning at a new radius: same question family, changed history.

[ i r o ]

Matrix lens

Make the addresses and transforms explicit.

Versioned transforms preserve both the previous state and the delta. New information updates affected addresses rather than silently overwriting the field.

↳ reality

Manifestation lens

Ask what this means in an actual domain.

A living theory remains capable of being changed by what it encounters while refusing to treat every new statement as automatically true.

Claims, lineage, and proof boundary

The explanation resolves to exact governed addresses.

Authorship, popularity, repetition, or automated generation cannot replace source identity, review, evidence, and explicit approval.

YT-CORE-005Canonical operational law

The Y Engine

The Y Engine is the living triad in continuing operation: it relates Source possibility to a situated condition, manifests a compatible expression, carries consequence through delay, retains residue, and changes the next condition.

receive → orient → transform → retain → relate → return → continue
Boundary, dependencies, and source

Guardrail: It is not a fourth object added to the triad. Its primitive operation already instantiates reusable Mind-structure, but does not by itself establish a continuing identity, observer, local cognitive mind, or subjective experience.

Requires: YT-CORE-003 · YT-CORE-004

Sources: AGENT_HANDOFF_READ_FIRST.md · PROJECT_REALITY_BRIEF.md · CHAPTER_03_THE_Y_ENGINE_REPAIRED(4).md

YT-METHOD-002Canonical governance rule

Source hierarchy and supersession without erasure

The current Living Source is the governed relational result of source-addressed propositions, not the winner of a timestamp contest. A direct author correction has scope-limited authority over the meaning it explicitly corrects; every candidate is first reconciled by referent, scale, reference frame, conditions, and proof mode, while accepted changes supersede without erasing lineage.

Boundary, dependencies, and source

Guardrail: Do not silently merge propositions, count byte duplicates as independent support, or treat a filename, modification date, rhetorical polish, or source label as truth authority. Record conflict only after incompatibility remains under the same normalized subject and declared conditions.

Requires: YT-METHOD-001

Sources: AGENT_HANDOFF_READ_FIRST.md · MASTER_CANONICAL_WISDOM_REGISTRY_V46.csv · corrections/AUTHOR_CORRECTION_2026-09-01_RELATIONAL_COHERENCE_AUTHORITY.md · governance/SOURCE_COHERENCE_AND_REPAIR_PROTOCOL.md

YT-METHOD-007Canonical governance and continuity law

Living Source first-and-last reference rule

Every substantive Y-Theory session begins by consulting the current Living Source, captures every reusable wisdom or correction in that project, and returns its result there before claiming completion. The Living Source is the reference field for challenging new problems and revisiting earlier wisdom.

Boundary, dependencies, and source

Guardrail: Automatic intake prevents loss but does not authorize silent canonical mutation. An agent must state which mounted project or release it actually read and must not claim access to a local Windows path merely because the path was named.

Requires: YT-METHOD-002 · YT-METHOD-003 · YT-METHOD-005 · YT-METHOD-006

Sources: Direct author thumb rule in current conversation, 2026-08-31 · governance/THUMB_RULE.md · W37-28 — New Wisdom Must Return to Source Registry

Claim dependencies entering this pageYT-CORE-003YT-CORE-004YT-METHOD-001YT-METHOD-002YT-METHOD-003YT-METHOD-005YT-METHOD-006

Declared connection types

Navigation is not secretly promoted into proof.

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Relation boundary: these two links express pedagogical order. Exact claim dependencies appear above. Candidate cross-domain queries are not rendered as validated relations.

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