Frame capture
The broad category: the frame governs what may be seen, said, or understood.
Diagnostic category
Capture
Capture occurs when a frame, model, identity, language, institution, authority, or narrative stops serving actuality and begins replacing, governing, or predetermining what actuality is allowed to mean.
A frame is legitimate while it remains corrigible. It becomes capture when it protects itself from correction by what is.
Canonical forms of capture
Model capture
The model is mistaken for the reality it models.
Concept capture
An abstraction begins to rule over the thing itself.
Language capture
Speech is mistaken for the condition of being.
Narrative capture
Events are assigned to a story before they are examined.
Identity capture
The self is captured by a frame.
Authority capture
Truth is outsourced to office, title, status, or institution.
Institutional capture
The institution preserves its account over the actual matter.
Ontological capture
A model of being replaces being itself.
Why capture matters
Most error is not merely a wrong sentence. It often becomes organized. A term, method, model, story, office, institution, or identity begins to decide in advance what can count as real.
Reality Audit is the method for finding this failure. Practical Correction is the discipline of returning the frame to service.