Definitions Glossary

This is a curated list of core concepts, theoretical terms, and systemological language developed or redefined within Conciliatorics.

Part 1: Introduction to Conciliatorics

• META-DISCIPLINE: A discipline (field of study) that deals with, or transcends, other disciplines.

• SYSTEMICS: A meta-discipline that groups different perspectives on the study of systems.

• CONCILIATORICS: A perspective within Systemics that aims to reconcile the ways we approach systems.

• BEHAVIOR DYNAMICS: A model containing one main systemic phenomenon (Behavior) and three main systemic entities (System, Member, Medium).

• BEHAVIOR: The transformation of a medium by system members.

• SYSTEM: An environment where interrelated members express behavior.

• MEMBER: A unit that expresses behavior within a system.

• MEDIUM: Components of a system transformed by its members to express their behavior.

• SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION: Action performed by a member that seeks to influence the behavior of a system.

• INTERVENER: Member who intervenes in a system.

• INVENTIVE SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION: Exploration of a system’s medium that seeks to influence its behavior.

• INVENTIVE PARCELLATION: Primary structure of inventive intervention.

• INVENTIVE APPROACH: Method of inventive intervention.

• INVENTIVE POSITION: Focus of inventive intervention.

• CONTEMPLATION: Inventive approach with emphasis on the intervener. Relates to knowledge building and judgement.

• TRANSFORMATION: Inventive approach with emphasis on the system. Relates to concrete change and performance.

• INTRINSICALITY: Inventive position with emphasis on the intervenable. Relates to direct engagement and inherent properties.

• INTERSTITIALITY: Inventive position with emphasis on the systemic. Relates to intangible outcomes and relational properties.

• INVENTIVE PARCELS: Main configurations of inventive parcellation: Intrinsic Contemplation, Intrinsic Transformation, Interstitial Contemplation and Interstitial Transformation.

• INVENTIVE EDIFICATION: Continuous and expansive development of inventive parcels.

• EDIFIED INTRINSIC CONTEMPLATION: Intrinsic Contemplation, edified. Field association — Sciences. Not developed in this treatise.

• EDIFIED INTRINSIC TRANSFORMATION: Intrinsic Transformation, edified. Field association — Technology. Developed in Part 6 as EIT.

• EDIFIED INTERSTITIAL CONTEMPLATION: Interstitial Contemplation, edified. Field association — Philosophy. Developed in depth as EIC (Parts 2-5).

• EDIFIED INTERSTITIAL TRANSFORMATION: Interstitial Transformation, edified. Field association — The Arts. Not developed in this treatise.

• INVENTIVE OSSIFICATION: The manifestation of dysfunctional processes in inventive edification.

• OSSIFIED INTRINSIC CONTEMPLATION: Ossified form of Edified Intrinsic Contemplation. Associated ideology — Scientism.

• OSSIFIED INTRINSIC TRANSFORMATION: Ossified form of Edified Intrinsic Transformation. Associated ideology — Technologism.

• OSSIFIED INTERSTITIAL CONTEMPLATION: Ossified form of Edified Interstitial Contemplation. Associated ideology — Philosophism.

• OSSIFIED INTERSTITIAL TRANSFORMATION: Ossified form of Edified Interstitial Transformation. Associated ideology — Aestheticism.

• INVENTIVE CONCILIATION: The restoration of functional processes in inventive edification.

• PARCELS COUNCIL: A standing method for facilitating conciliation, structured as a constitution of individually-invocable articles rather than a sequential procedure.

Part 2: Edified Interstitial Contemplation

• ATTRIBUTE: Specific quality of a system, member or a medium. In this framework, an attribute is not merely a passive trait but a dynamic component that interacts with behavior, structure, and purpose.

• ATTRIBUTES DYNAMICS: An EIC model designed to promote analytical exploration and integration of attributes.

• ATTRIBUTES REGULATION: EIC step that provides the rule set to explore the attributes structure and status.

• ATTRIBUTES STRUCTURE: EIC step that explores the interstitial anatomy components of Behavior Dynamics.

• ATTRIBUTES STATUS: EIC step that studies the interstitial physiology processes of Behavior Dynamics.

• ATTRIBUTES SYNTHESIS: EIC step that integrates the exploration of attributes structure and status.

• ATTRIBUTE POSITION: Focus of systemic attributes. The two main attributes positions are intrinsic attributes and interstitial attributes.

• ATTRIBUTE PAIR: The fundamental systemic unit in EIC, used instead of isolated attributes. Inherently contains Side A, Side B, and the dynamic relationship between them — held in symmetry if both sides carry equal importance, asymmetry if one is prioritized.

• SYMMETRY: ≡ — balanced, mutually-interdependent relationship between the sides of an attribute pair.

• ASYMMETRY: ≢ — directional prioritization within an attribute pair; broken symmetry.

• CONCATENATION: ^ — interaction between different attribute pairs, or between attributes of different paired sets.

• ACCENTUATION: ← — focus on one attribute of a paired set, or on one element of a compounded interaction, without dismissing the other side.

• MODULATION: → — the concrete effect of one attribute element or compound over another; alters internal dynamics rather than heightening or combining.

• SYSTEMIC JURISDICTION: The bounded environment that contains Conciliatorics components.

• ATTRIBUTE JURISDICTION: The bounded environment that contains Attributes Dynamics components.

• JURISDICTIONAL OVERREACH: The process by which one jurisdiction breaks boundaries to exert control over others.

• JURISDICTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION: The process and systemic state in which boundaries are maintained. The jurisdiction is aware of its distinct role while cultivating healthy interactions—this promotes systemic diplomacy.

• JURISDICTIONAL DISSOCIATION: The process and systemic state in which boundaries fracture. The jurisdiction isolates itself, forming a systemic silo.

• JURISDICTIONAL DISSOLUTION: The process and systemic state in which boundaries merge. The jurisdiction fuses into others, forming a systemic amalgam.

• PRIMARY JURISDICTION: The initial environment of attribute pairs within Attributes Dynamics.

• STILLNESS: Q — primary attribute; spatial pole of rest.

• MOVEMENT: M — primary attribute; spatial pole of motion.

• SIMULTANEITY: Si — primary attribute; temporal pole of co-occurrence.

• SUCCESSIVENESS: Su — primary attribute; temporal pole of sequence.

• DISCURSIVE REPRESENTATION: Representation through written or spoken language. The traditional medium of philosophical discourse, carrying argument, nuance, and context.

• SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION: Representation through compact notation—operators, letters, and equations—that holds dense relationships in a single, precise, reusable form.

• GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION: Representation through diagrams and images, exploiting spatial and visual relationships to make a structure legible at a glance.

• SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION: Representation through structured, field-based records. Its principal value is storage: material that can be filled in, compared, and accumulated into a library without collapsing into disorder as it grows.

Part 3: Attributes Structure

• ATTRIBUTE ACCENTUATION: Temporary focus on one member of an attribute pair, without dismissing the other side.

• PRO-STILLNESS: pQ — accentuation of Stillness within the Stillness/Movement pair (Q ← M).

• PRO-MOVEMENT: pM — accentuation of Movement within the Stillness/Movement pair (M ← Q).

• PRO-SIMULTANEITY: pSi — accentuation of Simultaneity within the Simultaneity/Successiveness pair (Si ← Su).

• PRO-SUCCESSIVENESS: pSu — accentuation of Successiveness within the Simultaneity/Successiveness pair (Su ← Si).

• STRUCTURE QUADRANT: Concatenation of two attribute accentuations, creating a potential interstitial state.

• INTERSTITIAL ANATOMY: Set of concrete interstitial actions, composed of structure quadrants accentuations.

• BOUNDED DISCERNMENT/OBSERVATION: Quadrant depending on member’s perspective.

• NON-BOUNDED DISCERNMENT/OBSERVATION: Quadrant detached from member’s presence.

• OBJECTIVITY: Non-bounded discernment.

• SUBJECTIVITY: Bounded discernment.

• ASSERTION: Assertive discernment—it states facts and perspectives about the world.

• ARRANGEMENT: Arranging discernment—it organizes aspects of a phenomenon to enhance its comprehension.

• DISCERNMENT ASCENDANCY: One of four aspects—Veracity, Congruence, Appreciation, Evaluation—formed by intersecting objectivity/subjectivity with assertion/arrangement, each heavily influencing how discernment operates.

• VERACITY: Discernment ascendancy formed by Objective Assertion.

• CONGRUENCE: Discernment ascendancy formed by Objective Arrangement.

• APPRECIATION: Discernment ascendancy formed by Subjective Assertion.

• EVALUATION: Discernment ascendancy formed by Subjective Arrangement.

• DISCERNMENT CHILDREN: The practical terms produced by the authority balance between discernment parents (Veracity, Congruence, Appreciation, Evaluation): Property, Formation, Interaction, Preference, Standard, and Criterion.

• PROPERTY: Discernment child formed when Veracity has authority over Congruence.

• FORMATION: Discernment child formed when Congruence has authority over Veracity.

• INTERACTION: Discernment child formed when Veracity and Congruence hold equal authority.

• PREFERENCE: Discernment child formed when Appreciation has authority over Evaluation.

• STANDARD: Discernment child formed when Evaluation has authority over Appreciation.

• CRITERION: Discernment child formed when Appreciation and Evaluation hold equal authority.

• JUDGEMENT: Bounded observation—attaching one’s own perspectives, priorities, and biases to the act of observing.

• ATTENTION: Non-bounded observation—attending to the world without the observer’s own judgement.

• OBSERVATION FORMS: The four concrete forms produced by combining judgement/attention with a top-down or bottom-up perspective: Assessment, Awareness, Relevance, and Concentration.

• ASSESSMENT: Observation form combining a top-down perspective with judgement—placing oneself as judge of the world.

• AWARENESS: Observation form combining a top-down perspective with attention—contemplating the landscape without judgement.

• RELEVANCE: Observation form combining a bottom-up perspective with judgement—assigning a priority order to the world’s manifestations.

• CONCENTRATION: Observation form combining a bottom-up perspective with attention—focusing on one aspect of the world outside immediate judgement.

• ACCEPTANCE: Integration of Assessment and Awareness; the state of holistic attention and appropriate judgement.

• ALERTNESS: Integration of Relevance and Concentration; the state of open concentration and available relevance.

• PRESENCE: Integration of Acceptance and Alertness; the state of fullness observation. Treated as a resting point to return to, not a final destination.

• CHAOS / ORDER: Main duality of resolution challenges in complex systems; neither implies wrongness nor rightness on its own.

• FRICTION / CONFLICT: Second challenge duality of resolution—friction relates to structural challenges, conflict to behavioral challenges.

• POTENTIAL: Friction concatenated with Chaos.

• STABILITY: Friction concatenated with Order.

• SUFFERING: Conflict concatenated with Chaos.

• SATISFACTION: Conflict concatenated with Order.

• TEMPERANCE: Integration of Potential and Stability; forward-facing, dynamic regulation that allows exploration without losing one’s foundations.

• SACRIFICE: Integration of Suffering and Satisfaction; temporally-aware, delayed gratification—accepting present suffering to enjoy future satisfaction.

• VIABILITY: Integration of Temperance and Sacrifice; the reconciliation of one’s interests, priorities, and desires with the limitations of the world.

• IDENTITY AXIS: Horizontal axis of the Operation compass; the spectrum between Fronterization and Permeability.

• PARTICIPATION AXIS: Vertical axis of the Operation compass; the spectrum between Proceptivity and Receptivity.

• PROCEPTIVITY: Cardinal North of the Operation compass; active engagement in systemic participation.

• RECEPTIVITY: Cardinal South of the Operation compass; openness to one’s environment, calibrating participation.

• FRONTERIZATION: Cardinal East of the Operation compass; the boundaries that give shape to identity.

• PERMEABILITY: Cardinal West of the Operation compass; the capacity of identity to adapt to the world’s flow.

• INDIVIDUAL: North-East hemisphere of the Operation compass; Proceptivity combined with Fronterization.

• COMMUNITY: South-West hemisphere of the Operation compass; Receptivity combined with Permeability.

• ORIENTATION: South-East hemisphere of the Operation compass; Receptivity combined with Fronterization.

• NAVIGATION: North-West hemisphere of the Operation compass; Proceptivity combined with Permeability.

• COMPASS: The original, informal name for Operation—still used, especially alongside the diagram, but not interchangeable with “Operation” when referring to the full Interstitial Anatomy context (i.e., alongside Discernment, Observation, and Resolution).

Part 4: Attributes Status

• ATTRIBUTE CONCATENATION: Crossed interaction between attribute pairs from the primary jurisdiction.

• CONSISTENCY / IMPERMANENCE: Reinforcing attribute pair produced by attribute concatenation — Consistency is Stillness concatenated with Simultaneity; Impermanence is Movement concatenated with Successiveness. More unstable than primary-jurisdiction pairs: any accentuation carries a greater risk of breaking the pair.

• BALANCE / IMBALANCE: Canceling attribute pair produced by attribute concatenation — Balance is Stillness concatenated with Successiveness; Imbalance is Movement concatenated with Simultaneity. Indivisible: both sides must remain available. Balance does not imply superiority over Imbalance.

• STATUS DICHOTOMIES: Concatenation between reinforcing and canceling attribute pairs.

• AVAILABLE STATUS: Imbalance ≡ Balance — both sides of the canceling pair remain available.

• DETRIMENTAL STATUS: Imbalance ≢ Balance — the required availability of balance and imbalance is broken.

• FUNCTIONALITY: Consistency accentuated over Impermanence, under a symmetrical (available) Balance/Imbalance status. Desirable.

• DYSFUNCTIONALITY: Consistency accentuated over Impermanence, under an asymmetrical (detrimental) status. Harmful.

• IMPERDURABILITY: Impermanence accentuated over Consistency, under a symmetrical status. Counterintuitively desirable.

• PERDURABILITY: Impermanence accentuated over Consistency, under an asymmetrical status. Counterintuitively detrimental.

• INTERSTITIAL LONGING: Survival and performance drive.

• PERDURABILITY LONGING: The survival drive of biological systems; interacts with the Imperdurability/Perdurability dichotomy to form Organic Physiology.

• FUNCTIONALITY LONGING: The performance ambition of artificial systems; interacts with the Functional/Dysfunctional dichotomy to form Instrumental Physiology.

• INTERSTITIAL PHYSIOLOGY: Set of interactions between interstitial longings and status dichotomies.

• ORGANIC PHYSIOLOGY: Interaction between “perdurability longing” and “imperdurability / perdurability dichotomy”.

• INSTRUMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY: Interaction between “functionality longing” and “functional / dysfunctional dichotomy”.

• MIXED PHYSIOLOGY: Simultaneous interaction between both interstitial longings and status dichotomies.

• INCOMPATIBILITY AXIOM: Functionality and Perdurability are not compatible in a mixed physiology system.

• STATUS DECAY: Interstitial process of physiological deterioration.

Part 5: Attributes Synthesis

• ORGANIC SYNTHESIS: Modulation of interstitial anatomy by organic physiology.

• INSTRUMENTAL SYNTHESIS: Modulation of interstitial anatomy by instrumental physiology.

• MIXED SYNTHESIS: Modulation of interstitial anatomy by mixed physiology.

• UNIFICATION SYNTHESIS: Modulation of interstitial anatomy by perdurable dysfunctionality physiology.

• CONCILIATION SYNTHESIS: Modulation of interstitial anatomy by imperdurable functionality physiology.

• CONCILIATION PATHWAY: Iterated Imperdurable Functionality.

• STATUS RECIPROCITY: Correlation between interstitial and intrinsic attributes, modulated by mixed synthesis.

• CENTRALIZATION: Intrinsic attribute correlate of Unification Synthesis; the dysfunctional-status pole of Status Reciprocity.

• DECENTRALIZATION: Intrinsic attribute correlate of Conciliation Synthesis; the functional-status pole of Status Reciprocity.

• CORE EIC: The foundational, integrated development of EIC, running from Attributes Dynamics through the close of Attributes Synthesis.

• EDGE EIC: Additional EIC development extending beyond Core EIC into specific, still-evolving methods. Individual Edge EIC concepts don’t need to cover every Core EIC component symmetrically, and can grow independently of one another.

• OPERATIONAL STATUS: The first developed Edge EIC concept — functional/dysfunctional gradation, via Sub/Supra/Hypo/Hyper modulators, applied to the Operation compass’s four cardinal directions. Currently developed for Operation only.

• SUB / SUPRA: Functional accentuation modulators — reduced (Sub) or heightened (Supra) emphasis on an Operation direction — that preserve complementarity with its pair, paralleling Symmetry.

• HYPO / HYPER: Dysfunctional accentuation modulators — reduced (Hypo) or heightened (Hyper) emphasis on an Operation direction — whose emphasis has broken complementarity with its pair, paralleling Asymmetry. Not an “Anti-” framing: they mark a dysfunctional degree of the same direction, not opposition to it.

Part 6: Edified Intrinsic Transformation

• SYSTEMIC DIPLOMACY: A jurisdiction’s awareness of its own distinct role, cultivating healthy interaction with neighboring jurisdictions rather than isolating itself (dissociation) or merging into them (dissolution).

• AI ASSISTANCE: The use of AI systems to support work with Conciliatorics. What that support can do is graded by readiness. The interpretive step remains Contemplation, and remains with the intervener.

• SCHEMATIC VECTORS: The three directions relative to a schematic record — supply, probe, and expound — together with the rule of which directions an AI tool may travel. Supply is closed to AI tools. Probe and expound are open.

• SUPPLY VECTOR: Non-schema to schema. The user commits a placement into a schematic record. Closed to AI tools, because the fields are a commitment the user stands behind.

• PROBE VECTOR: Schema to schema. A supplied record is tested against its own fields, against the equations, or against other supplied records. Open to AI tools. The object of the test is a record already committed. A probe that writes a case has become supply.

• EXPOUND VECTOR: Schema to non-schema. A supplied record is set forth as prose, notation, or a diagram. Open to AI tools. The record stays the source of truth, and the rendering is not a route back.

• YAML LIBRARY: A structured, growing set of schematic entries—sharing a consistent set of fields and cross-referenced by stable identifiers—that accumulates instances of some kind (definitions, symbols, cases, relationships) into something that stays organized as it grows.

• YAML GLOSSARY: The first built instance of a YAML Library; holds every defined term and symbol as a single set of structured, cross-referenced records. The schematic working source; these Part 7 lists remain the old-school reference.