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Working notes on the ontologies published here — design decisions, the reasoning behind them, and what breaks when they are wrong.
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Born at a permanent address
Why the Record Ontology never had an example.org placeholder, what the redirect chain under this site actually does, and why a 303 is the right answer to a namespace IRI.
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The carrier, dissolved
v0.5.0 removed a class rather than adding one. What carries the carrier turned out to be the wrong question — the regress halts in a warrant, not in a thing, and the cogito is a pattern rather than a class.
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Exercise or exorcise
v0.6.0 added one datatype property and a discipline that goes with it. Formal warrant is a claim, not a credential: run the description or hold the record testimonially — and be honest about which.
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A harm is a legitimate operation minus its escalation record
Two ontologies published here cut the same territory differently — one act-shaped, one warrant-shaped. Writing the dictionary between them produced a single sentence that covers all five prime harms, and explains why neither vocabulary should absorb the other.