{
  "schema": "y-theory.vocabulary.v1",
  "status": "governing_vocabulary_after_v1_migration",
  "authority_boundary": "This vocabulary governs IDs, meanings, aliases, and candidate tag detection. Assignment to a record retains its own method and review state; a keyword hit never establishes an approved engine position or relation.",
  "structural_positions": [
    {
      "id": "possibility_source",
      "symbol": "◇",
      "title": "Possibility / Source-facing availability",
      "stage": "source",
      "structural_role": "Compatible continuations not exhausted by the present manifestation.",
      "invariant": "More than one continuation remains available relative to a bounded condition.",
      "expected_difference": "What counts as a possible continuation is domain- and scale-specific.",
      "validation_question": "What makes the continuation compatible, available, and distinguishable from fantasy?",
      "keywords": [
        "possib",
        "potential",
        "source",
        "available",
        "open"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "differentiation",
      "symbol": "Δ",
      "title": "Differentiation",
      "stage": "contact",
      "structural_role": "One origin becomes two non-identical polar expressions held in relation.",
      "invariant": "A consequential distinction must be operationally recoverable.",
      "expected_difference": "The observables or criteria of distinction change with the domain.",
      "validation_question": "Which measurement, boundary, judgment, or rule distinguishes the poles?",
      "keywords": [
        "differ",
        "distinct",
        "contrast",
        "polar",
        "separat"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "boundary_inside_outside",
      "symbol": "I/O",
      "title": "Inside / outside boundary",
      "stage": "contact",
      "structural_role": "A declared identity remains distinct from identities not included within it.",
      "invariant": "Inside and outside are reference-relative roles joined by a consequential boundary.",
      "expected_difference": "Physical, biological, mental, social, theological, and computational boundaries use different criteria.",
      "validation_question": "Whose continuity owns the boundary, and what crosses it?",
      "keywords": [
        "boundar",
        "inside",
        "outside",
        "interface",
        "other"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "relation_contact",
      "symbol": "↔",
      "title": "Relation / coupling",
      "stage": "contact",
      "structural_role": "The channel that both separates and connects the polar expressions.",
      "invariant": "A carried difference changes at least one participant or the relation itself.",
      "expected_difference": "Force, bonding, signaling, attention, language, ritual, and messages are not one mechanism.",
      "validation_question": "What actual carrier transmits consequence between the declared poles?",
      "keywords": [
        "relation",
        "contact",
        "interact",
        "connect",
        "exchange"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "orientation_selection",
      "symbol": "↗",
      "title": "Orientation / selection",
      "stage": "transformation",
      "structural_role": "One compatible continuation becomes weighted or selected.",
      "invariant": "Later continuation is non-randomly conditioned relative to the declared alternatives.",
      "expected_difference": "Constraint, selection, attention, intention, law, and routing have distinct agency requirements.",
      "validation_question": "What selects, by which criterion, and with what alternative baseline?",
      "keywords": [
        "orient",
        "select",
        "choice",
        "intend",
        "attent",
        "direct"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "transformation_action",
      "symbol": "⇢",
      "title": "Transformation / action",
      "stage": "transformation",
      "structural_role": "A selected relation becomes consequential change.",
      "invariant": "The pre-contact and post-contact conditions are distinguishable.",
      "expected_difference": "State change, reaction, adaptation, action, reform, interpretation, and computation require different variables.",
      "validation_question": "What changed, for which identity, and compared with what baseline?",
      "keywords": [
        "change",
        "transform",
        "action",
        "adapt",
        "expression",
        "becom"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "delay_lag",
      "symbol": "τ",
      "title": "Delay / lag",
      "stage": "retention",
      "structural_role": "Noncoincidence orders contact and consequence into a history-bearing path.",
      "invariant": "Cause-bearing contact and registered consequence are not the same event.",
      "expected_difference": "The interval may be measured time, ordinal sequence, processing latency, or social delay.",
      "validation_question": "How is order or duration observed, and what rival process could explain it?",
      "keywords": [
        "delay",
        "lag",
        "interval",
        "timing",
        "before",
        "after"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "residue_trace",
      "symbol": "ρ",
      "title": "Residue / trace",
      "stage": "retention",
      "structural_role": "A carried consequence makes prior contact available to what follows.",
      "invariant": "Removing or altering the residue changes later continuation.",
      "expected_difference": "Distribution, chemical state, scar, memory trace, institution, tradition, and log are different carriers.",
      "validation_question": "Which past-specific trace remains, where, and with what later consequence?",
      "keywords": [
        "residu",
        "trace",
        "consequence",
        "history",
        "imprint",
        "remain"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "memory_retention",
      "symbol": "M",
      "title": "Memory / retained return",
      "stage": "retention",
      "structural_role": "An addressable trace re-enters present operation.",
      "invariant": "A past-specific difference is recoverable and affects a present comparison or action.",
      "expected_difference": "Physical records, biological inheritance, personal memory, archives, scripture, and checkpoints differ in access and interpretation.",
      "validation_question": "How is the trace addressed, reactivated, and distinguished from a new occurrence?",
      "keywords": [
        "memory",
        "retain",
        "record",
        "archive",
        "store",
        "inherit",
        "dna"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "reinforcement",
      "symbol": "+",
      "title": "Reinforcement",
      "stage": "continuity",
      "structural_role": "Returned consequence makes a related renewal more available.",
      "invariant": "Prior continuation changes the probability, strength, or accessibility of a later related continuation.",
      "expected_difference": "Amplification, catalysis, selection, habit, norm, practice, and routing update use different mechanisms.",
      "validation_question": "Which repeatable quantity changes, in which direction, and relative to what control?",
      "keywords": [
        "reinfor",
        "repeat",
        "recur",
        "strength",
        "stabili",
        "habit"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "leakage_loss",
      "symbol": "−",
      "title": "Leakage / loss / export",
      "stage": "continuity",
      "structural_role": "Influence leaves recoverable availability to the declared identity at the declared scale.",
      "invariant": "A cost or influence becomes unavailable to local renewal or is exported beyond the selected boundary.",
      "expected_difference": "Flux, heat, damage, forgetting, exclusion, hypocrisy, and data loss require domain-specific accounting.",
      "validation_question": "What became unrecoverable, for whom, across which boundary, and was it conserved elsewhere?",
      "keywords": [
        "leak",
        "loss",
        "entropy",
        "waste",
        "distort",
        "harm",
        "damage"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "oscillation_phase",
      "symbol": "∿",
      "title": "Oscillation / phase",
      "stage": "continuity",
      "structural_role": "Departure and non-identical return preserve a recurrent relational form.",
      "invariant": "A repeated relation has a declared period, phase, or ordinal recurrence with retained difference.",
      "expected_difference": "Physical phase, chemical cycle, body rhythm, attention cycle, ritual recurrence, and retry loop are not interchangeable.",
      "validation_question": "What recurs, how is phase defined, and which residue prevents exact repetition?",
      "keywords": [
        "oscillat",
        "wave",
        "rhythm",
        "phase",
        "spiral",
        "helix",
        "cycle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "closure_return",
      "symbol": "↺",
      "title": "Closure / recoverable return",
      "stage": "return",
      "structural_role": "Enough organization returns to renew a distinguishable identity.",
      "invariant": "The continuation satisfies a declared recoverability criterion after change.",
      "expected_difference": "Recurrence, equilibrium, repair, decision correction, justice, repentance, and rollback have different success conditions.",
      "validation_question": "What returned, what changed permanently, and who decides that closure is sufficient?",
      "keywords": [
        "closure",
        "return",
        "recover",
        "renew",
        "repair",
        "correct",
        "feedback"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "identity_persistence",
      "symbol": "≋",
      "title": "Identity / persistence",
      "stage": "return",
      "structural_role": "A relational form remains recognizable through history-bearing change.",
      "invariant": "At least one defining relation is recoverable across non-identical states.",
      "expected_difference": "Particle identity, organism continuity, personhood, institution, concept, tradition, and process identity use different criteria.",
      "validation_question": "Which invariants justify following this as one continuation rather than a replacement?",
      "keywords": [
        "identity",
        "persist",
        "continuity",
        "self",
        "lineage",
        "surviv"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "observation_model",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "title": "Observation / model",
      "stage": "local-capability",
      "structural_role": "Present condition is compared with retained history and integrated at a whole depth.",
      "invariant": "A comparison changes later modeling, judgment, or action.",
      "expected_difference": "Measurement apparatus, regulation, subjective awareness, audit, interpretation, and evaluators have different observer criteria.",
      "validation_question": "Where are present and history compared, and how does the comparison redirect relation?",
      "keywords": [
        "observ",
        "compar",
        "model",
        "predict",
        "aware",
        "understand",
        "judg"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mind_nesting",
      "symbol": "⊂",
      "title": "Mind / nesting / whole return",
      "stage": "depth-recursion",
      "structural_role": "A completed identity becomes one participant in a wider relation without erasing local distinction.",
      "invariant": "Local and wider continuities reciprocally constrain and return consequence.",
      "expected_difference": "Every declared whole can be read through Mind-structure, but containment does not make every group, ecosystem, universe, or software network one observer or self-correcting cognitive whole.",
      "validation_question": "What whole-level memory, integration, redirection, and return are independently demonstrated?",
      "keywords": [
        "mind",
        "nest",
        "collective",
        "community",
        "distributed",
        "society",
        "within"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "subjects": [
    {
      "id": "cosmology",
      "title": "Cosmology",
      "dimension_class": "physical",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Relativity, gravitation, field theory, astronomy, and measurement retain authority over physical mechanism.",
      "keywords": [
        "cosmol",
        "universe",
        "star",
        "planet",
        "gravity",
        "black hole"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "matter_physics",
      "title": "Matter & physics",
      "dimension_class": "physical",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Measured observables and the relevant physical formalism must carry the claim.",
      "keywords": [
        "physics",
        "particle",
        "matter",
        "field",
        "quantum",
        "radiation",
        "force"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "chemistry",
      "title": "Chemistry",
      "dimension_class": "physical",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Bonding, kinetics, thermodynamics, and reaction mechanism must remain chemically specified.",
      "keywords": [
        "chemistry",
        "chemical",
        "molecule",
        "atom",
        "reaction",
        "bond"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "biology_life",
      "title": "Biology & life",
      "dimension_class": "living",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Biochemistry, regulation, evolution, ecology, and embodiment remain domain-specific.",
      "keywords": [
        "biology",
        "life",
        "cell",
        "organism",
        "evolution",
        "ecology",
        "rna",
        "protein"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "body",
      "title": "Body",
      "dimension_class": "living",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Physiology, sensation, cost, damage, repair, and clinical evidence cannot be replaced by software analogy.",
      "keywords": [
        "body",
        "embodi",
        "sensation",
        "metabolism",
        "emotion",
        "feeling"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dna_inheritance",
      "title": "DNA & inheritance",
      "dimension_class": "living",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Sequence, expression, repair, cellular context, and selection remain literal biological mechanisms.",
      "keywords": [
        "dna",
        "gene",
        "genome",
        "inherit",
        "lineage"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "mind",
      "title": "Mind",
      "dimension_class": "mental",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Awareness, memory, observerhood, subjective experience, and metacognition must not be collapsed.",
      "keywords": [
        "mind",
        "observer",
        "awareness",
        "conscious",
        "memory",
        "meaning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "society_governance",
      "title": "Society & governance",
      "dimension_class": "social",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Persons, institutions, power, dissent, consent, cost, and repair remain distinguishable.",
      "keywords": [
        "society",
        "community",
        "govern",
        "justice",
        "econom",
        "collective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "philosophy",
      "title": "Philosophy & ideas",
      "dimension_class": "conceptual",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Coherence and structural beauty do not establish truth without argument and corrective contact.",
      "keywords": [
        "philosoph",
        "idea",
        "knowledge",
        "truth",
        "language",
        "concept"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "faith_religion",
      "title": "Faith & religion",
      "dimension_class": "theological",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Revelation, Creator, creation, carrier, interpretation, and community remain distinct.",
      "keywords": [
        "faith",
        "relig",
        "qur",
        "scripture",
        "guidance",
        "mercy",
        "allah"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "digital_ai",
      "title": "Digital systems & AI",
      "dimension_class": "digital",
      "mechanism_boundary": "Corpus, model, process, agent, user, body, authority, and runtime evidence remain separate identities.",
      "keywords": [
        "digital",
        "software",
        "runtime",
        "agent",
        "ai",
        "computer",
        "code"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cross_theory",
      "title": "Cross-theory / not yet localized",
      "dimension_class": "theoretical",
      "mechanism_boundary": "A cross-theory record requires domain localization before it can support a domain claim.",
      "keywords": []
    }
  ],
  "aliases": {
    "structural_positions": {
      "possibility": "possibility_source",
      "boundary": "boundary_inside_outside",
      "contact": "relation_contact",
      "orientation": "orientation_selection",
      "transformation": "transformation_action",
      "delay": "delay_lag",
      "residue": "residue_trace",
      "memory": "memory_retention",
      "leakage": "leakage_loss",
      "oscillation": "oscillation_phase",
      "closure": "closure_return",
      "identity": "identity_persistence",
      "observation": "observation_model",
      "nesting": "mind_nesting"
    },
    "subjects": {
      "matter": "matter_physics",
      "physics": "matter_physics",
      "quantum": "matter_physics",
      "biology": "biology_life",
      "dna": "dna_inheritance",
      "society": "society_governance",
      "faith": "faith_religion",
      "digital": "digital_ai",
      "culture": "philosophy",
      "source": "cross_theory"
    }
  },
  "relation_types": [
    "contains",
    "forms",
    "couples",
    "returns",
    "corresponds",
    "supersedes",
    "tests"
  ],
  "authority_states": [
    "canonical",
    "approved",
    "candidate",
    "recovered",
    "generated_index"
  ],
  "evidence_states": [
    "declared",
    "derived",
    "observed",
    "open",
    "rejected",
    "unassessed"
  ],
  "review_states": [
    "machine_mapped",
    "human_reviewed",
    "author_approved"
  ],
  "assignment_methods": [
    "author",
    "human_review",
    "canonical_rule",
    "keyword_candidate",
    "legacy_import"
  ],
  "capabilities": [
    "source-address",
    "structural-mind",
    "continuing-identity",
    "living-regulation",
    "observer-capable",
    "local-cognitive",
    "self-correcting",
    "subjectivity",
    "collective-hypothesis"
  ],
  "coordinates": [
    "formation_history",
    "containment_depth",
    "capability_depth",
    "presentation_layout"
  ]
}