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)

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-02-22
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18735381
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Embodied and Extended Cognition
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Beyond Sectors: Glossary of Core Concepts

Andreas Gregor Kawa
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Embodied and Extended Cognition
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Beyond Sectors: Glossary of Core Concepts

Andreas Gregor Kawa
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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)

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