This is a minimal, working glossary. It exists to reduce friction for first-time readers.
It expands only when real ambiguity appears.
English terms (A–Z)
Co-authorship (practice)
Shared responsibility for clarity: interruption, revision, and traceable correction. AI can assist; responsibility remains human.
Coherence (as criterion)
Not “harmony” or “agreement,” but intelligibility that holds under scrutiny: clarity, consistency, and consequences that remain answerable.
Contemplation (operational)
Gathered attention—through silence or honest dialogue — where reality becomes legible without coercion. Not withdrawal, but alignment.
Corrigibility
The capacity to be corrected without humiliation or collapse. A public discipline: claims remain revisable through dialogue and consequences.
Dialogue (as living instrument)
Not debate or exchange of opinions, but disciplined inquiry: attention + risk + correction, where positions can transform rather than harden.
Epistemic posture
A stable stance of inquiry that governs what counts as evidence, clarity, and correction in a given project.
First-person / Third-person bridge
A research stance that relates lived reports (first-person) and measurements/models (third-person) without reducing one to the other.
Lucid trust
Trust that is not belief added to ignorance, but confidence formed by recognition, tested in conduct, and refined through correction.
Orientation (vs explanation)
Explanation seeks causes; orientation seeks direction. Orientation asks: does understanding make life more coherent, accountable, and clear?
Public constraint
A rule of honesty: nothing is protected by spectacle, rhetoric, or private immunity. If it cannot be made intelligible and discussable, it is not used as a claim here.
Rational intuition
Direct grasp of a relation or structure that can later be tested, clarified, and revised — without pretending it is “proof” by itself.
Recognition (criterial “yes”)
The moment something is seen as fitting, false, or distorted—not by persuasion, but by alignment. Recognition precedes theory, then demands articulation.
Syntropy
A philosophical orientation toward coherence: the direction in which thought, perception, and action begin to resonate rather than remain fragmented. (Not a physics claim.)
Understanding (as an epistemic virtue)
Clarity that reduces confusion without reducing reality. Understanding becomes visible in what it enables: cleaner distinctions, better questions, and less compulsion.
Sanskrit terms (used sparingly; always with functional English nearby)
Sanskrit terms are given in IAST; capitalization follows standard academic usage — concepts lower-case; proper names capitalized. These appear only when strictly necessary (usually in parentheses).
hṛdaya
The “heart” as cognitive principle: the locus of recognition-before-concept, where orientation gathers and clarity becomes possible.
jīva
The individual life-perspective: the person as a situated, finite standpoint capable of alignment, distortion, and revision.
ṛta
The living axis of coherence: alignment with what is real and sustaining, prior to ideology and mere opinion.
śraddhā
Lucid trust: a confidence that becomes criterial through recognition and is verified in conduct.
See also
Version v0.1 — Published 2026-02-24 — Updated 2026-02-24
