Identity law
Same name is not the same realization, generation, representation or authority.
Notes · Taxonomy
Same name is not the same realization.
The taxonomy is the semantic canon for how evaluation is named, classified, drawn and published. Evidence before architecture. Identity before authority. Graph edges are contracts. Observation is not authority. Publication is an authority-changing state transition.
Overview
Twelve nouns. Nine families.
Every material node resolves to at least one noun: intent, source, evidence, realization, identity, authority, policy, state, execution, observation, failure or recovery, publication or receipt. If it cannot, the node is underspecified. The nine Graphite families are the integrity laws that own a finding after fractionalization, not a second set of nouns.
Edge contracts
An edge may not mean merely related-to.It must identify evidence, observation, dependency, authority, mutation, state, transfer, recovery, publication or contradiction.
Evidence grades
Unknown, reported, inferred, directly observed, reproduced, independently corroborated, receipt-backed.Strength is not probability of truth.
Temporal class
Current, historical, prospective, draft, superseded, stale, unknown generation.
Disposition
Observe, investigate, accept, generalize, reject, subsume, hold, watch, reopen, closed.
G1 Intent and evidence
Are we reasoning from qualified evidence about the exact realization and target intent we think we are judging?
G3 Policy coverage
Does governance cover every path capable of producing a relevant effect, or only the obvious one?
G8 Evaluation independence
Did evaluation, simulation or promotion accidentally inherit the authority of the system under test?
G9 Cutover
Planned successor identity is not source-development authority, artifact-publication authority, compatibility authority, production-recommendation authority or legacy-retirement authority.
Proof
A diagram is not a receipt.
The drawing grammar lives on Evaluation graphs. This note is the fuller taxonomy: nouns, families, grades and the publication gate.