Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Let the owner retain significance and interpretation without converting observations, patterns, or generated analysis directly into profile truth, policy, or permission.
- Meaningful outcome
- A source-linked Meaning record exists with a clear subject, statement, context, provenance, confidence, lifecycle status, and revision relationship.
- Boundaries — includes
- subject and evidence references, source events, contextual interpretation, originator or model, confidence, applicable scope, proposal/confirmation/rejection/supersession state, review timing, revision, and provenance.
- Boundaries — excludes
- recording the underlying observation, detecting a pattern, preserving a broad reflective assessment, creating a durable lesson, changing profile truth, granting authority, changing retrieval policy, and adapting agent or workflow behavior.
- Terms and concepts
Meaning answers why a source, event, decision, or experience matters to the owner. It is a Knowledge object, not a permission or an automatic statement of fact.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Preserve or revise Meaning
- Actor
- The owner or an authorized knowledge process operating within declared scope.
- Command / intent
- Record, confirm, revise, reject, or supersede an interpretation of why identified evidence matters.
- Current state
- The subject and eligible evidence are identifiable; relevant prior Meaning records and the actor's authority are available.
- Policies / invariants
- Meaning remains linked to evidence and context; machine-generated Meaning starts non-authoritative; confidence and origin remain visible; confirmation does not grant permission or silently change Cotton, profile truth, rules, skills, agent behavior, policy, or ranking; revisions preserve prior states.
- Transition
- Validate subject and evidence references, record the interpretation and scope, assign its provenance and lifecycle state, and link any revision or supersession relationship.
- Result
- A proposed, owner-confirmed, rejected, superseded, or reasoned-not-recorded Meaning outcome.
- Events / effects
- Confirmed Meaning may become eligible for governed retrieval, reflection, review, or Learning creation without performing those later outcomes.
- Unknowns
- Universal confirmation thresholds, confidence scales, review intervals, and retrieval-weight treatment are not established.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Observation, pattern, Meaning, profile assertion, Learning, and authority must remain distinguishable.
- Context and Meaning must never be treated as authorization.
- A generated interpretation must not silently become owner-confirmed Meaning.
Recommended defaults
- Preserve the narrowest useful subject and evidence scope.
- Record material counter-evidence, uncertainty, and a review time when significance may change.
Unknown / unresolved
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| Meaning is a contextual, revisable, evidence-linked Knowledge object whose confirmation remains separate from authority and downstream adaptation. | rule/invariant | sourced | T01–T08. |