This section presents a research program concerned with the conditions under which semantics becomes executable, governable, and economically accountable.
It provides the conceptual substrate that precedes the structural analyses in the Research section of this site.
The program is organized across seven foundational domains, covering institutional, syntactic, engineering, collaborative, ecological, cognitive, and economic dimensions of semantic systems.
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Research Field Notice This research program defines a field of inquiry in which semantic structures are examined as executable, governable, and formally constrained conditions.
Readers are free to study, reference, critique, or develop independent work inspired by these materials.
However, any work that claims to be based on, derived from, or aligned with this research program is expected to preserve:
the underlying semantic assumptions, the problem boundaries defined by the six domains, and the conditions required for executable semantic order. Reinterpretation, rebranding, or systematization that materially alters these assumptions should not be presented as an extension of this research.
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Program Overview This research program examines semantic systems as formal, executable structures capable of constraining behavior, distributing authority, and enabling coordination within computational and institutional environments.
The program does not treat language as a descriptive or communicative medium.
It approaches language as a structural substrate in which permissions, commitments, inference paths, and operational boundaries can be encoded, executed, and inspected.
The central question is:
Under what structural and institutional conditions can semantics serve as an executable order?
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Research Domains Semantic Systems Research is organized across seven foundational domains.
Each domain defines a distinct problem set that cannot be absorbed into existing disciplines without distorting its assumptions or collapsing its structural aims.
1. Semantic Institutional Design Scope
Language as institutional material.
Semantic structures as carriers of authority, delegation, and responsibility.
Core Problem
Legal theory and political science cannot express chain-of-semantics governance;
computer science provides protocol logic but no language-level authority model.
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