Beyond Sectors: Glossary of Core Concepts
This working paper presents the Beyond Sectors glossary as a conceptual orientation instrument for decision-making, governance, and design under conditions of post-sectoral complexity, epistemic uncertainty, and AI-mediated cognition. The glossary defines a coherent set of fundamental, orientational, diagnostic, and instrumental concepts developed within the Beyond Sectors framework. Rather than proposing a theory of truth or a sector-specific methodology, the framework focuses on orientation architectures: structures that enable reliable action, responsibility attribution, and epistemic agency in environments where traditional sectoral distinctions and answer-centric models fail. The glossary integrates concepts related to post-sectorality, post-relativism, decision traceability, delegation diagnostics, and question-centric epistemic development, providing a shared vocabulary for analyzing coordination failures, automation risks, and cognitive overload in contemporary socio-technical systems. The contribution is conceptual and non-empirical. It establishes terminology, clarifies conceptual relations, and serves as a stable reference point for further research, design, and policy-oriented work. Author keywords (free terms): Trackness; Incubativity; Delegability; TID triad; PreP; UnPreP; ICE-D; epistemic regulation; epistemic agency; Beyond Sectors. Internal reference: CB_01 (v0.1)
Authors
- Andreas Gregor Kawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4290-6300)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-02-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18735381
- Primary Topic
- Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00