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post-merge terminology corrections in the frozen September checkpoint

2026-09-02 · settled · DECISIONS.md line 1403

Agent-decided, reversible. A scrub, not a research decision. After the naming audit merged, two residual uses of pre-audit terminology were found in the frozen projects/normativity/legitimacy/checkpoint-2026-09-01/ and corrected under the freeze policy's allowance for a scrub with a stated reason (2026-09-01, below):

No theorem, interface, status, or research judgment changed. Recorded also in the checkpoint's own PROVENANCE.md.

What was found and deliberately not changed. The audit pass was less complete over the checkpoint than over the wiki, and this scrub did not widen to repair that, because a systematic re-scrub of a frozen tree is a maintainer act rather than a cleanup. The remaining pre-audit vocabulary, for whoever rules on it:

Uses that are correct and should survive any such pass: normative authority (practical, standing, genealogy, authorized disposition, grants) and claim meaning a registered assertion, a theorem claim, or a traded proposition. Supersession rows naming a retired object by its retired name are the map and are not residue.

Rejected alternative: scrubbing all of it here. Rejected because it would make a cleanup PR rewrite most of a frozen record's prose, which is the thing the freeze exists to prevent, and because the two corrections above are the ones that were actually misleading about current typing.

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