Principle 02 · How it strengthens
Propagation
An entity's authority does not reside in the single node: it is transmitted between coherent nodes, along the relations that bind them. Authority circulates, it is not owned.
Authority is a function of the neighbours
Classic SEO believes authority lies in the single strong domain: accumulate links, accumulate signals, become a rock. It is a per-node view. Ontopoietica reverses it: my authority is a function of the authority of what I am connected to, weighted by the type of connection. What matters is not only who you are linked to, but how — an "author-of" edge does not weigh like a "cited-by" or "same-as" edge.
It is the inheritance of object-oriented programming applied to knowledge: a subclass inherits from the superclass. It is magnetic Lego bricks: pieces hold by the faces that match. It is the Casatese triangle: three coherent nodes — club, territory, results — that hold each other up, and none of the three contradicts the other two.
The mathematical form
Propagation is, literally, the sum term in the equation of authority:
Each neighbour j contributes its own authority , scaled by the weight of the edge type. This is why a virgin domain can resolve: not because it has authority of its own, but because it inherits that of the already-resolved nodes it binds to well.
The falsifiability condition
Prediction: an entity bound by coherent edges to high-authority nodes resolves; an isolated entity, or one bound only to weak nodes, does not — all else being equal. If entities well connected to strong nodes did not resolve faster than isolated ones, the principle would be false.
Limits
Propagation is not always positive. An incoherent neighbour — a source that contradicts you, a link to a discredited node — propagates negative authority: the weight can work against you. Propagation rewards coherence, not the quantity of links. Better three coherent edges than thirty noisy ones.
Go to the next principle: falsifiability — what may enter the datum.