Definitions and canonical concepts

This page serves as a public registry of canonical definitions used in the interpretive governance doctrine developed by Gautier Dorval.

It lists the primary conceptual references that govern term usage on this site and that aim to frame machine interpretation when they are encountered.

This registry constitutes neither an operational method nor a promise of results. It exists to reduce ambiguity by declaring stable conceptual perimeters.

The canonical entity graph is published here: /entity-graph.jsonld


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Observable phenomena (field)

Authority, limits, and non-response

Evidence, audit, and observability

Governances and architecture

Application contexts