The four principles

To exist, to propagate, to stay true, to last

Four founding principles, in logical order. From the first the method follows; the other three say how the entity strengthens, what may enter it, and how it lasts over time. Their mathematical form is in the equation of resolution authority.

• 01 Data-Identity

  An entity exists to the extent that it is structured as a verifiable datum, not as content. The root: it defines what an entity is.

• 02 Propagation

  Authority is not owned: it circulates between coherent nodes, along the typed relations that bind them. It is the sum term in the formula.

• 03 Falsifiability

  Only what is corroborated and refutable enters the datum. The plausible is not enough. It is what separates the discipline from marketing.

• 04 Consolidation

  Recognition is a loan to be maintained in a changing environment, not a possession to be cashed in.