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Practices and doctrines — box 28 of 53
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MS 3718.47
Precedent
Precedent is the foundational principle of governance and documentation within The Tower. Operationally defined as a ruling, judgment, or es…
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MS 6193.05
Precedent of the Silent Stair
Precedent of the Silent Stair refers to a body of administrative and judicial doctrine governing non-verbal communication, procedural mutene…
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MS 2772.96
Precedential Loop of Elara Vance
Precedential Loop of Elara Vance refers to the specific administrative and archival paradox generated by the tenures of successive Commissio…
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MS 6113.06
Predictive Modelling
Predictive Modelling refers to the administrative methodology, distinct from the more formalized School of Predictive Curation, by which the…
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MS 5974.30
Present Era (Ongoing)
Present Era (Ongoing) is the administrative-temporal designation for the current, unfolding phase of the Tower’s chronology. Unlike prior er…
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MS 3252.51
Preservation of Unverifiable Data
Preservation of Unverifiable Data is the core archival principle governing the custody of holdings whose ontological status cannot be defini…
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MS 7804.04
Presumption of Operative Fiction
The Presumption of Operative Fiction is a foundational juridical-administrative principle within the Tower, establishing that any coherent, …
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MS 7822.71
Primacy of Instrument vs. Observation
The Primacy of Instrument vs. Observation is a long-standing methodological schism in epistemological verification within The Tower. It conc…
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MS 3307.08
Primacy of Preservation
The Primacy of Preservation is the foremost governing principle of archival conduct in The Tower, a hierarchical doctrine established by The…
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MS 9899.69
Primary Catalepsy
Primary Catalepsy is a state of profound motionless trance induced in a sentient observer through exposure to a specific category of foundat…
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MS 8414.37
Primary Citizenship
Primary Citizenship denotes a distinct, foundational category of residency status within the Tower, established by Clause 5 as the anteceden…
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MS 5472.83
Primary Verification
Primary Verification is the foundational administrative process by which the existence and ontological status of a subject is definitively c…
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MS 0309.41
Principle of Anticipatory Concession
The Principle of Anticipatory Concession is a foundational administrative precept governing the granting of permissions for activities and a…
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MS 9401.51
Principle of Architectural Silence
The Principle of Architectural Silence is a foundational doctrine of Tower governance, which holds that its ordinances, cataloguing protocol…
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MS 7294.44
Principle of Catalogued Reality
The Principle of Catalogued Reality is the foundational metaphysical and administrative doctrine that defines the existential status of all …
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MS 6420.73
Principle of Contained Reality
The Principle of Contained Reality is the primary administrative and metaphysical doctrine governing the operational status of all catalogue…
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MS 5502.74
Principle of Contained Veracity
The Principle of Contained Veracity is the foundational epistemological doctrine governing the reality and status of all entities catalogued…
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MS 3478.05
Principle of Deferred Judgment
The Principle of Deferred Judgment is the governing procedural doctrine that certain legal, ontological, or archival determinations are to b…
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MS 7304.93
Principle of Ecological Necessity
The Principle of Ecological Necessity is an axiom of procedural taxonomy which posits that any environmental system within the Tower, whethe…
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MS 4967.48
Principle of Inscriptive Actualization
The Principle of Inscriptive Actualization is the foundational procedural tenet of the Literalist School, formally established by the Treati…
Arrangement within a series is by title. Box numbers describe the present arrangement and are not a permanent feature of the holding.