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Canon

Canon identifies the framework's authorized conceptual commitments and the sources that state them. It helps readers reconstruct Ultimentality faithfully across its kernel, wiki, examples, and applications. These artifacts represent the framework and can be corrected when their wording misrepresents it.

Authority and fidelity

The author's clarification of intended meaning governs correction of that meaning in the corpus. An inherited rubric, a model's summary, or repetition across derivative pages does not override that clarification. A benchmark can help compare formulations when its source, version, and authority are established; its name alone does not establish those things.

This separates two questions. What does the framework mean? is answered through its authorized definitions and clarifications. How accurately does it map or explain its subject? is assessed through reasoning, evidence, and application. Authorial authority over meaning does not manufacture an empirical result, and an empirical finding does not require a rubric's permission to be considered.

Definitions and their representations

The wiki and kernel carry definitions, relationships, and compact formulations. Where they diverge, locate the precise difference: an object mistaken for a component, an example made universal, an inference stronger than its premises, or an obsolete formulation copied into an index. Repair that difference while preserving the intended relation.

An editorial restriction should identify the distinction it protects. Scoring penalties and earlier disputes belong to editorial history when they are needed to explain a decision; they are not ingredients of an emotion, a Force, or a role. A correction becomes useful when the concept works more accurately in the reader's hands.

Canonical status

AC records authority-dependent standing. Canonical ≠ necessary: adoption establishes the framework's usage, while necessity, adequacy, and performance require their appropriate grounds. A canonical definition can be clear, stable, and effective without making each wording permanent.

The Open Proof-Burden keeps the scope of completeness claims explicit. The Falsification Standard provides means to evaluate challenges. Both serve the framework's development; neither installs an inherited editorial apparatus above its author.

Formal status

E: Derived, AC for the framework's authorized meaning; Exposition for this account of maintaining fidelity. A: distinguishes source authority, faithful representation, and evidential support. Provenance: the author's clarification that the wiki and kernel are fallible compressions of the framework, together with its authority/accuracy distinction.

See also

Authority-Canonical Tier · Open Proof-Burden · Provenance as Testimony · Two-Mark System · Frame Condition and Formulation · Falsification Standard