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Lexicon
The Lexicon collects, bounds, and cross-references central terms from DET SOM ER, Røyndalism, Corrigible Realism, and Reality Audit. Entries establish usage within stated contexts but do not replace examination against what is.
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The Lexicon secures stable usage, visible source status, and precise distinctions among foundational, framework, method, and document-specific definitions.
A definition establishes how an expression is used within a stated system or document. It does not by itself establish that what is defined exists, that a causal explanation holds, or that a representation corresponds to actuality.
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Model and representation
Abstraction
A deliberate selection of properties or relations while other aspects of the relation are held outside the representation.
Abstraksjon
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Human being, self, and practice
Action
What a human being or actor actually does in actuality, with a course and effects that can be examined.
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Ontology and ground
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System, authority, and institution
Adversarial participation
A real opportunity for an affected party to know, answer, and have relevant material and claims considered in a matter.
Kontradiksjon
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System, authority, and institution
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Knowledge and testing
Appearance
The actual manner in which a state of affairs, event, or trace becomes manifest or is experienced under specified conditions of access.
Framtoning
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Document and audit architecture
Application domain
A professional or social field in which Reality Audit is adapted to concrete roles, norms, materials, and effects.
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Model and representation
Artificial
Produced through technique, construction, rule, or purpose rather than through the relevant natural process.
Constructed
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System, authority, and institution
Artificial intelligence
A technical system that performs tasks regarded as intelligence-like when humans perform them.
AI
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Language and reference
Assignment to actuality
The transition by which an expression, concept, or claim-content is connected to a particular state of affairs that it is asserted to describe.
Tilordning til røynda
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Document and audit architecture
Audit type
A standardised examination adapted to a particular kind of object, intermediary, or failure risk.
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System, authority, and institution
Authority
A recognised or formally assigned reason for being heard, followed, or having decisions accepted within a bounded domain.
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Findings, risk, and correction
Authority capture
A bounded condition in which a person, title, office, or institutional status governs assessment in place of the relevant ground the authority was meant to carry.
Autoritetsfangst
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Ontology and ground
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Knowledge and testing
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Framework and methodology
Boundary condition
A condition that must be met for a claim, model, rule, or method to hold within a stated domain.
Grensevilkår
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Findings, risk, and correction
Boundary dissolution
A weakening of relevant distinctions among person, role, action, relation, responsibility, or institutional competence.
Grenseoppløysing
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Knowledge and testing
Burden of proof
The responsibility to provide sufficient grounds for a claim, finding, or demand for intervention.
Bevisbyrde
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Model and representation
Calibration
Establishment and control of the relation between an instrument output and a defined reference within stated tolerances.
Kalibrering
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Findings, risk, and correction
Capture
The condition in which a frame, identity, model, authority, or system no longer serves actuality or purpose but begins to replace, govern, or protect itself against correction.
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Findings, risk, and correction
Capture risk
A documented risk that a frame, role, representation, or arrangement may replace what it was meant to serve or describe.
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Human being, self, and practice
Care
Practice that takes responsibility for another human being’s concrete need and protection without erasing the person’s voice, role, or agency.
Omsorg
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Human being, self, and practice
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Human being, self, and practice
Character
A relatively stable but corrigible pattern in how a human being meets, assesses, and acts in actuality over time.
Karakter
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Language and reference
Claim
An utterance that presents a bounded content as being or not being the case.
Påstand
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Findings, risk, and correction
Collapse condition
An explicit condition which, if established, prevents a claim, document, or system from being maintained in its current form.
Samanbrotsvilkår
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Document and audit architecture
Comparative placement
Systematic comparison of problems, concepts, similarities, differences, and objections between Røyndalism and other scholarly traditions.
Komparativ plassering
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System, authority, and institution
Competence
Relevant capacity or authority to perform a task or assess a question.
Kompetanse
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Language and reference
Concept
A bounded unit of thought or linguistic-disciplinary unit that gathers a distinction, type, or function.
Notion
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Language and reference
Contradiction
Two statements or consequences that cannot both hold in the same meaning, time, and respect.
Motseiing
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Knowledge and testing
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Language and reference
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Knowledge and testing
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Framework and methodology
Corrigible Realism
The philosophical position of a realist framework that keeps its own statements, models, and systems open to correction before actuality.
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Knowledge and testing
Counter-material
Material that counts against, limits, or weakens the ground of a claim, finding, or decision.
Motmateriale
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Knowledge and testing
Counterexample
A documented case showing that a universal claim does not hold within its declared scope.
Moteksempel
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Knowledge and testing
Criticism
Reasoned examination of a claim, practice, or structure to clarify what holds, what does not, and what requires correction.
Kritikk
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Knowledge and testing
Data
Recorded values, traces, or information that may enter examination or modelling.
Dataset · Data material
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System, authority, and institution
Decision
A determination that acquires status, legal effect, or practical consequence within a mandate.
Avgjerd
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Language and reference
Definition
An explicit delimitation of how a concept is to be understood or used within a stated scope.
Definisjon
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System, authority, and institution
Delegation
Documented transfer of task, authority, or decision competence from one actor to another.
Delegasjon
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Framework and methodology
DET SOM ER
The independent philosophical foundation from which Røyndalism is developed.
WHAT IS
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Document and audit architecture
Document
A stable bearer of text, data, image, decision, log, or other registered information.
Record
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Knowledge and testing
Epistemology
The study of knowledge, recognition, grounds, and testing.
Theory of knowledge
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Knowledge and testing
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Human being, self, and practice
Ethics
Systematic assessment of responsible action, norms, values, persons, conditions, and effects.
Etikk
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Knowledge and testing
Evidence
Material or inferential ground that may support, weaken, or settle a claim within a bounded requirement.
Proof
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Ontology and ground
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Knowledge and testing
Factivity
The condition that a knowledge expression is bound to what is actually the case.
Factive constraint
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Knowledge and testing
Faith
Strong belief or trust that goes beyond what is methodologically established.
Faith-like trust
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Findings, risk, and correction
Finding
A bounded, documented assessment following from the material and the stated assessment rule.
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Framework and methodology
Foundational shift
A testable change in which actuality becomes the measure of theory, authority, and practice, and traceable correction replaces self-grounding frames.
Grunnlagsskifte
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Model and representation
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Ontology and ground
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Human being, self, and practice
Harm
Documentable impairment, loss, or violation of a relevant human, legal, social, institutional, or ecological good.
Skade
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Human being, self, and practice
I
The first-person word referring to the one who speaks, acts, or stands responsible in a statement.
First person
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Language and reference
Idea
A conception, thought, or possible ordering that may be expressed, tested, or developed.
Thought · Proposal
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Human being, self, and practice
Identity
A linguistic, experiential, social, or institutional articulation of who a person is, belongs as, or is understood as.
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Findings, risk, and correction
Identity capture
A condition or process in which an identity representation, role, or category takes governing place over self-understanding, action, relations, and correction.
Identitetsfangst
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Knowledge and testing
Illusion
An appearance that does not correspond to what it seems to show.
Misleading appearance
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Framework and methodology
Impartiality
Sufficient absence of relevant ties or interests that may weaken confidence in a concrete assessment or decision.
Habilitet
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Framework and methodology
Independence
The degree of freedom from common origin, direction, interest, or control that may affect source, analysis, or decision.
Uavhengigheit
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Knowledge and testing
Inferential chain
The visible sequence from material and premises through an assessment rule to a bounded inference and finding.
Slutningskjede
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System, authority, and institution
Institution
A durable social, legal, or professional arrangement with recognised functions, roles, norms, and practices.
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Findings, risk, and correction
Institutional correction
Documented change to information, decision, process, system, or practice so the institution corresponds better to mandate, rights, material, and actual effect.
Institusjonell korrigering
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Model and representation
Instrument
A means or tool that records, measures, transforms, or makes material available.
Measuring instrument · Tool
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Human being, self, and practice
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Human being, self, and practice
Intelligence
The capacity to perceive, distinguish, learn, adapt, and act with relevant order in relation to situations.
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Knowledge and testing
Interpretation
The assignment of meaning, category, cause, or context to an experience, registration, observation, or representation.
Tolking
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Ontology and ground
Is
A basic expression for that something is, or for assigning something to something in a statement.
To be · Be · Am · Are
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System, authority, and institution
Jurisdiction
The matter, person, place, or professional domain within which an authority or competence applies.
Jurisdiksjon
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System, authority, and institution
Justice
A reasoned ordering of treatment, distribution, responsibility, and redress that takes relevant differences, rights, and effects seriously.
Rettferd
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Knowledge and testing
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Language and reference
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System, authority, and institution
Legitimacy
Grounded rightfulness of an arrangement, role, procedure, or decision within a bounded domain.
Legitimitet
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Framework and methodology
Limitation
An explicit boundary upon what a claim, document, method, or competence purports to cover.
Avgrensing
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System, authority, and institution
Mandate
The formal or expressly assigned task and scope of action of an actor, role, or institution.
Mandat
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Knowledge and testing
Material
All relevant matter to which the audit actually has access and can assess within the mandate.
Materiale
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Language and reference
Meaning
The bounded content of understanding carried by an expression through use, context, and referential relation.
Meining
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Model and representation
Measurement
A rule-governed assignment of values, categories, or magnitudes to a phenomenon or relation through a documented measurement operation.
Måling
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Framework and methodology
Methodological reflexivity
Systematic examination of how the auditor’s concepts, role, expectations, tools, interests, and conditions may affect the inquiry.
Metodisk refleksivitet
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Framework and methodology
Methodology
The systematic justification of why a method may yield responsible results, under what conditions it applies, and how it may be tested and corrected.
Metodologi
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Model and representation
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Model and representation
Model assignment
The justified transition by which a model, variable, or model relation is connected to a concrete state of affairs that the model is asserted to represent.
Modelltilordning
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Human being, self, and practice
Norm
An expressed or institutionalised expectation concerning what ought, must, or may be done within a defined area.
Norm
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Framework and methodology
Object of audit
The concrete condition, document, system, claim, or process that an audit concerns.
Granskingsemne
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Knowledge and testing
Objection
A formulated challenge to a claim, transition, definition, limitation, or practical consequence.
Motsegn
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Knowledge and testing
Observation
A situated act in which an appearing or registered condition is identified and bounded as observational content.
Observasjon
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Ontology and ground
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Document and audit architecture
Open question
An identified question for which the theory or method does not yet have a sufficient answer.
Open problemstilling
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System, authority, and institution
Organisation
A concrete association of people, roles, resources, procedures, and technical systems performing tasks.
Organisasjon
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System, authority, and institution
Oversight
Independent or specially assigned control of whether an activity follows relevant rule, standard, or mandate.
Tilsyn
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Language and reference
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Human being, self, and practice
Person
A concrete human being bearing experience, relationships, action, rights, and responsibility without being exhausted by a role or category.
Person
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System, authority, and institution
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Human being, self, and practice
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Human being, self, and practice
Precaution
Proportionate and revisable action under real uncertainty to reduce the risk of serious or irreversible harm.
Føre-var
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Ontology and ground
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Language and reference
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Knowledge and testing
Presuppose
To place something as a condition before or without testing it in the present context.
Assume in advance
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Knowledge and testing
Presupposition
Something placed as a ground for an assessment, model, inference, or action.
Assumption
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Model and representation
Projection
A rule-governed transformation in which relations from one representational space are carried into another with specified preservation and loss.
Projeksjon
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System, authority, and institution
Proportionality
Assessment of whether an intervention or measure bears a reasonable relation to its purpose, grounds, alternatives, and effects.
Forholdsmessigheit
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Human being, self, and practice
Protection
Measures and arrangements that reduce documented or reasonably foreseeable harm without exceeding what the purpose can bear.
Vern
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Knowledge and testing
Provenance
The documented chain of origin, transfer, handling, alteration, and access to material.
Proveniens
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Language and reference
Quotation
A marked reproduction of source wording with an identifiable source and sufficient context.
Sitat
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Ontology and ground
Reality
The real to which words, representations, and models refer when they are correct.
The real
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Framework and methodology
Reality Audit
A traceable and corrigible methodology for examining whether representations, models, systems, decisions, and practices hold in contact with what is.
Røyndsgransking
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System, authority, and institution
Reasons
A reviewable account of relevant material, rule, assessment, and their relation to the decision.
Grunngjeving
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Knowledge and testing
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Language and reference
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Knowledge and testing
Refutation
Sufficient examination showing that a claim does not hold within its declared scope or on its stated grounds.
Refutering
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Knowledge and testing
Registration
A physical, biological, digital, or documentary trace of an impact, event, or state.
Registrering
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Knowledge and testing
Reliability
The degree of stability and consistency in registration, classification, or analysis under comparable conditions.
Reliabilitet
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Framework and methodology
Reopening
Formal renewed examination of a previous audit where substantial new or corrective grounds affect the mandate or finding.
Gjenopning
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Model and representation
Representation
A sign, image, diagram, symbol, or other intermediary that stands for something else.
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Knowledge and testing
Reproducibility
The possibility for another qualified actor to follow documented material, choices, and analysis and review the result.
Reproduserbarheit
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Knowledge and testing
Residual problem
A relevant question or tension remaining after an objection has received a reply.
Restproblem
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Human being, self, and practice
Responsibility
The obligation to answer for a role, action, decision, or effect to the degree that the actor held relevant mandate, knowledge, influence, or control.
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Findings, risk, and correction
Restoration
Practical and documentable rebuilding of right, position, relationship, or conditions after harm or injustice, so far as this is possible and defensible.
Gjenoppretting
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Human being, self, and practice
Role
A relational or institutional position carrying particular expectations, powers, duties, boundaries, or scope of action.
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Human being, self, and practice
Role conflict
A conflict among expectations, powers, duties, or loyalties arising from two or more roles in the same situation.
Rollekonflikt
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Framework and methodology
Røyndalism
The overall corrigible realist framework developed from DET SOM ER.
Royndalism
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Human being, self, and practice
Self
The human being as themselves, bearing experience, continuity, self-relation, action, and responsibility without being exhausted by a single identity or role assignment.
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Human being, self, and practice
Self-representation
The linguistic, visual, or enacted representation a human being gives of themselves in a particular context.
Sjølvframstilling
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Human being, self, and practice
Self-understanding
How a human being understands themselves, their history, properties, relations, and possible actions.
Sjølvforståing
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Model and representation
Simulation
The rule-governed production of model states or model trajectories under stated assumptions.
Simulering
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Human being, self, and practice
Social mirroring
The process by which the reactions, language, and expectations of others contribute to how a person sees and represents themselves.
Sosial spegling
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Knowledge and testing
Source
The origin, bearer, or channel of material, information, statement, or documentation.
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Human being, self, and practice
Status
An actual, social, or formally established placement that may carry particular rights, duties, or effects.
Status
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Framework and methodology
Stopping rule
An explicit condition for when an audit may close without concealing central material, counter-testing, or residual uncertainty.
Stoppregel
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Model and representation
Synthetic
Put together, produced, or constructed through combination of parts, rules, or material.
Constructed · Composed
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System, authority, and institution
System
An ordered relation of parts, relations, rules, and processes operating together around or toward a purpose.
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Findings, risk, and correction
System capture
A bounded condition in which a system’s own frame, procedure, classification, or self-maintenance takes governing priority over the purpose, material, or actual condition it was meant to answer to.
Systemfangst
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Knowledge and testing
Testimony
A statement by an actor about something the actor says they saw, did, received, meant, or experienced.
Witness statement · Account
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Knowledge and testing
Testing
Systematic examination of whether something holds in contact with what is.
Examination
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Findings, risk, and correction
Totalisation
The transfer by which a bounded representation is used as if it explained or governed the whole person or a wider domain than the grounds can bear.
Totalisering
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Knowledge and testing
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Language and reference
Translation
A disciplined assignment of meaning, reference, and function from one language to another.
Omsetjing
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Knowledge and testing
Triangulation
Testing or strengthening an assessment through several relevant routes of access, methods, or source types.
Triangulering
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System, authority, and institution
Trust
Practical reliance that a person, institution, source, or arrangement will bear its role properly.
Reliance
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Framework and methodology
Unit of audit
The bounded analytical unit documented and tested within the object of audit.
Granskingseining
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Model and representation
Validation
Systematic examination of whether a model, variable, or procedure is adequate for a stated purpose and domain of validity.
Validering
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Human being, self, and practice
Value
A reasoned assessment of what is good, worth protecting, harmful, necessary, or fit for purpose within a stated scope.
Verdi
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Knowledge and testing
Verification
Checking that a statement, registration, file, link, or representation corresponds to what it claims to correspond to.
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Model and representation
Visualisation
A visual ordering or transformation of data, model outputs, or relations for inquiry or communication.
Visualisering · Visualization
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Ontology and ground
World
The shared actuality in which human beings and institutions live, act, and produce effects.
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