# Glossary

## Primary Classes

- **Forces:** Dynamics that recur across realities without requiring one bounded actor.
- **Cosmologies:** Models that explain the architecture, origin, or purpose of reality as a whole.
- **Beings & Roles:** Agents, intelligences, and recurring roles capable of choice or encounter.
- **Worlds & Places:** Environments, frontiers, sites, and constructed realities where action occurs.
- **Technologies:** Repeatable capabilities, methods, and engineered transformations.
- **Artifacts & Resources:** Object-like carriers of power, evidence, memory, or exchange.
- **Factions & Institutions:** Coordinated collective actors with durable aims, membership, or authority.
- **Programs & Operations:** Deliberate projects, missions, and covert or public operations.
- **Systems & Regimes:** Persistent rule environments that coordinate access, behavior, and value.
- **Events & Thresholds:** Transformations that create a meaningful before and after.
- **States & Experiences:** Conditions of mind, body, identity, or society that can be inhabited.
- **Myths & Storyworlds:** Narrative structures through which cultures organize possibility and fear.
- **Hypotheses & Lenses:** Competing explanatory models applied to ambiguous observations.

## Inquiry Domains

- **Origin & Lineage:** Where did this come from, and what does it inherit?
- **Reality & Ontology:** What kind of reality is being proposed?
- **Intelligence & Otherness:** Who else is here, and how unlike us are they?
- **Contact & Communication:** What happens when worlds meet?
- **Mind & Consciousness:** What can awareness perceive, become, or mistake?
- **Memory & Identity:** What persists, and what has been forgotten?
- **Body & Evolution:** What can embodiment inherit or become?
- **Technology & Infrastructure:** What becomes possible, and what must support it?
- **Time & Causality:** How does chronology organize consequence?
- **Civilization & Ecology:** How do worlds coordinate life, resources, and survival?
- **Power & Control:** Who can act, know, constrain, or extract?
- **Liberation & Transcendence:** How does a system become freer or exceed its present form?

## Material Modes

- **established-science:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **emerging-science:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **speculative-science:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **science-fiction:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **mythology:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **esoteric-tradition:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **experiential-report:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **ufology-disclosure-lore:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **conspiracy-mythology:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **political-mythology:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **internet-folklore:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **spiritual-cosmology:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.
- **original-synthesis:** a declared origin/status context, not a truth score.

## Evidence States

- **well-established:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **documented-historical:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **active-research:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **plausible-speculation:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **contested:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **unverified:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **contradicted-by-evidence:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **experiential-only:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **fictional:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **symbolic:** a claim-level evidence designation.
- **not-applicable:** a claim-level evidence designation.
