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This glossary fixes how active Before We Build pages use central terms. A definition can be a project convention even when the underlying psychological proposal remains unvalidated.

Project and scope

Before We Build — a universal research framework for how any two people may build, decide, coordinate, and sustain a relationship or shared task.

Universal core — the ontology, four-level architecture, evidence rules, context and safety constraints, and validation programme that do not assume one application.

Application — a named domain and worldview specialization with explicit normative sources, audience, and decision limits.

Christian Before We Build — the first developed application; it is not synonymous with the universal core.

Running example

Relocation case — the shared illustrative case used to distinguish obligation, direction, joint action, and information exchange. It is hypothetical evidence-training material, not a validated case study.

Evidence terms

Observation — a recorded statement, event, behaviour, measurement, or outcome with provenance.

Indicator — an observable feature defined as possible evidence about a construct.

Interpretation — a proposed meaning assigned to observations.

Evidence — information relevant to supporting, challenging, or distinguishing a claim; relevance does not guarantee quality.

Model terms

Typology — a structured classification tradition used here as a source of testable hypotheses, not as proven personality science.

Type of perception and experience organization — the plain-language BWB label for a model hypothesis about how a narrower process may select, order, interpret, or organize experience; not a personality type or a sensory-perception-only category.

Type pattern — the technical label for a compact, revisable model-based summary of such a pattern; not a kind of person, the whole personality, or a directly observed object.

Latent construct — a proposed variable inferred from indicators.

Latent process — a proposed unobserved process that may explain a recurring pattern; not an established causal mechanism.

Natural-predisposition hypothesis — the further, unvalidated proposal that a type pattern partly reflects a natural predisposition. It does not establish biological innateness, fixity, or independence from learning, role, culture, state, stress, and context.

Frame — an internal principle of selection, ordering, and interpretation within a proposed process model.

Aspectual content — in the BWB Socionics reconstruction, the class of distinctions and relations a proposed partial representation preserves.

Aspectual operation — the proposed way those distinctions are selected, compressed, organized, used for inference, and updated; a research hypothesis, not a brain module.

Partial reality model — a limited, correctable representation of one shared world. It does not imply a private reality or exhaustive depiction.

Position mode — the Model A hypothesis about how an aspectual operation is foregrounded, produced, valued, resisted, sought, or backgrounded; not an ability rank.

Value-moral foundation — values, moral obligations, conduct, dignity, consent, safety, responsibility, reciprocity, repair, and non-negotiable boundaries; not a typology.

Causal reasoning — in the BWB temporal model, the process of establishing causal links, chronology, origins, and lessons from precedents (Past focus, “Why?” question); distinct from meaning-making.

Meaning-making — in the BWB temporal model, the cognitive-existential process of generating overarching significance frames, principles, and value orientations (Eternity focus, “To what end?” question); does not determine moral maturity.

Strategic compatibility — compatibility of temporal or existential direction; mapped provisionally to Temporistics, not to values.

Operational compatibility — compatibility in organizing decisions and joint action; mapped provisionally to Psychosophy.

Tactical compatibility — compatibility in building, exchanging, checking, and repairing partial information models; mapped provisionally to Socionics, not to all communication.

Alternative meanings and rival explanations

The same observation may be explained by role, expertise, language, stress, health, culture, power, or a typological hypothesis. These alternatives must be compared rather than silently assigning the observation to a type.

The three typology systems are non-equivalent and modelled separately. They are not assumed to be empirically independent. When a source uses a term differently from BWB, the source meaning must be attributed before the project definition is applied.

Limits

Compatibility — fit for a named domain, outcome, population, and horizon; not a universal quality of a pair.

Context — cross-cutting conditions such as culture, health, resources, role, history, law, and power; not a fifth level.

Safety gate — a condition such as coercion, violence, exploitation, or absence of meaningful consent that stops ordinary trade-off reasoning.

Non-claim — an explicit statement of what a model does not establish.

Conversation vocabulary and practical questions

Resource — a possible way a pattern can help a named undertaking.

Friction — a possible coordination difficulty to investigate, not a defect or verdict.

Repair — action that acknowledges harm or error, accepts responsibility, and attempts appropriate restoration.

Rival hypothesis — an alternative explanation capable of fitting some of the same evidence.

  • What concrete event are we trying to understand?
  • Which outcome and time horizon make “compatibility” relevant here?
  • What explanation besides typology fits the observation?
  • Are consent, safety, power, or a non-negotiable boundary involved?

Status and measurement

Claim status — a label distinguishing project definitions, normative rules, source attributions, hypotheses, evidence-supported claims, disputes, rejections, guidance, and historical proposals.

Individual test result — the output of one instrument about one person; never by itself a pair compatibility result.

Compatibility score / numerical pair aggregation — a single numerical output that combines pair-level observations. Before We Build currently offers no validated or operational version of such an output.

Weak-AI copilot — software that may summarize, organize, and generate questions under human review; it does not simulate or predict a person.

For the research route, continue to Epistemic Status and Inference Limits, Validation Program, and Compatibility Measurement Methods.

Next reading

See Extended Research Glossary for research terminology, Compatibility Level Boundaries for boundary cases, and Epistemic Status and Inference Limits for claim statuses.