dynamics-of-theories
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Statement
A time-indexed version of condensation states how concepts persist and deform as a theory changes and what survives an ontological shift.
Source
projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/notes/roadmap.md, Stage 4: "Stage 3 connects to condensation, but furthermore wants a dynamics of theories: semantics as some kind of flow over time; understanding ontological shifts." projects/deference/faf-cleanroom-2026-10-02/sources/references/bli/chats/bli-chat-2024-12-09-udt-tiling-research-agenda.md, the maintainer's fourth agenda item of 2024-12-09 (ontology uncertainty and ontology change; what it means to treat things as real).
Notes
A mid-level plan of Stage 4, filed as an or over two candidate accounts: concepts that survive a shift as equivalences over a bridge of common information, and a theory of latents with object permanence. The definitional step (a concept trajectory over a sequence of models) is the given parent of the first. The nearest existing formal work is the superconditioning document's variable future ontology (§7) and its ontological-shift paragraph (§9.1), and the decision-problems formal core's open question on per-state algebras, which the updateless-dt branch files.
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