Icosa Canon

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1352 named terms

Registry kinds

Canon records the default register and explanatory field for each kind. Individual entries can carry more specific authored fields.

assessment

explanatory leaf
Not specified
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "exempt",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A short quiz, an assessment administration or response set, or the score or result produced by an assessment.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming one of the scored Icosa assessment instruments identified by its Canon entry."
}

axis

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "contextual",
  "lowercase_when": "Used in its ordinary English sense rather than to name the Icosa capacity or domain."
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A harmony formed by a capacity-domain intersection, or an under, centered, or over state on an axis.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming one of the four capacities or five domains that forms an axis of the Icosa grid."
}

basin

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A two-axis self-reinforcing trap, a state at one grid cell, or an onset and propagation cascade.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming a broad capacity, domain, or whole-system attractor state that gathers multiple grid cells toward a shared pattern over time."
}

basin-type

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A specific named basin or the state or pattern expressed within that basin.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming the structural class by which basins are grouped across a capacity, a domain, or the wider system."
}

cascade

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "The harmony itself, a reusable cascade type, a named child variant, or a static basin or trap.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming a specific harmony-by-type origin pattern and its possible propagation through the grid."
}

cascade-type

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A specific harmony-qualified cascade or one of that cascade's named presentation variants.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming one of the eight structural state-pair classes used to classify cascade origins across harmonies."
}

cascade-variant

explanatory leaf
reason
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "The parent cascade, a reusable global diagnosis, or a variant attached to a different cascade.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming a reviewed presentation that is a child of exactly one parent cascade."
}

compensation

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "contextual",
  "lowercase_when": "Used as an ordinary English action rather than to name the typed Icosa redistribution."
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A state on one axis, a cascade route through the grid, or a dyadic interaction between people.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming a cross-axis redistribution in which an overactive capacity or domain substitutes for an underactive counterpart."
}

dyadic-dynamic

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "An individual's pattern, a harmony or cell state, or a claim about communication content or outcome not encoded by the state pair.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming a typed relation between two partners' capacity states on a specific dyadic channel."
}

harmony

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "contextual",
  "lowercase_when": "Used in its ordinary English sense rather than to name the Icosa capacity-domain intersection."
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "Either axis by itself, or a state, pattern, trap, or cascade situated at that harmony.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming the harmony formed by one capacity intersecting one domain at a specific grid cell."
}

interaction

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "Any participant structure by itself, or an untyped claim that two structures merely co-occur.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming a typed relation, pairing, trigger, loop, or lock among basins, traps, cascades, or compensations."
}

path

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "contextual",
  "lowercase_when": "Used as an ordinary English action rather than to name the directed Icosa centering transition."
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "The endpoint state, the inverse direction, a generic intervention, or a guaranteed sequence of change.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming one directed transition on an axis between an under or over pole and center."
}

pattern

explanatory leaf
Not specified
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "contextual",
  "lowercase_when": "Used as ordinary English description rather than as a typed Icosa pattern name."
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "exempt",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "The same word used as ordinary description, or a basin, trap, cascade, or axis state without the typed pattern identity.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming an Icosa state or presentation label as a typed pattern entry."
}

quiz

explanatory leaf
Not specified
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "exempt",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A full assessment, a quiz administration or response set, or the score or result produced by a quiz.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming one of the short Icosa quiz instruments identified by its Canon entry."
}

trap

explanatory leaf
definition
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A broad basin, an onset and propagation cascade, a reusable trap type, or an escape or intervention address.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming a self-reinforcing loop anchored by a capacity and a domain at one harmony."
}

trap-escape

explanatory leaf
reason
orthography
{
  "evidence": "typed-only"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A standalone prose label, the parent trap, an intervention option, or an escape belonging to another parent trap.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Resolving or displaying a source-authored escape option at the exact parent trap and route cell encoded by its typed address."
}

trap-intervention

explanatory leaf
reason
orthography
{
  "evidence": "typed-only"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "required",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A standalone prose label, the parent trap, an escape option, or an intervention belonging to another parent trap.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Resolving or displaying a source-authored intervention option at the exact parent trap and route cell encoded by its typed address."
}

trap-type

explanatory leaf
Not specified
orthography
{
  "case": "capitalized-always",
  "evidence": "ordinary"
}
register
clinical
requiredness
{
  "confusable_with": "exempt",
  "deprecated_forms": "exempt",
  "glossary_ref": "exempt",
  "orthography": "inherited",
  "parents": "exempt",
  "preferred_over": "exempt",
  "replaced_by": "exempt",
  "sentence_examples": "exempt",
  "status": "exempt",
  "usage.do_not_use_for": "inherited",
  "usage.register": "inherited",
  "usage.use_when": "inherited"
}
usage
{
  "do_not_use_for": "A specific domain-qualified trap or an escape or intervention attached to that trap.",
  "register": {
    "docs": "allowed",
    "marketing": "allowed",
    "product": "required",
    "public": "required"
  },
  "use_when": "Naming the structural loop class shared by traps with the same capacity-domain state geometry."
}