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Practices and doctrines — box 17 of 52
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MS 4829.50
Identification
Identification is the process by which the Librarians establish the categorical existence of a subject, enabling its subsequent cataloguing …
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MS 8594.37
Immediate Halt
Immediate Halt denotes the cessation of all cognitive and interpretive processes by a Librarian or other authorized archival agent upon enco…
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MS 3322.27
Impermanent Recordings
An impermanent recording is any archival object whose content is intrinsically unstable, degrading, or liable to spontaneous modification ov…
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MS 5857.01
Implementation
Implementation is the formal, multi-stage process by which a subject becomes a ratified and catalogued holding of the Tower. Distinct from i…
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MS 4790.58
Implied Fauna
Implied Fauna are a classification of non-physical entities within The Tower, formally recognized as possessing biological characteristics a…
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MS 5104.88
Impossible Hydraulics
The core axiom of Impossible Hydraulics, as established in Clause 37 of Annex VII-C, is that "a fluid's phenomenological reality within the …
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MS 1705.70
Incident Response and Remediation
Incident Response and Remediation refers to the formalized body of doctrines, protocols, and standing orders governing the Tower’s reaction …
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MS 8983.66
Incomplete Histories
An Incomplete History is an official archival designation for a chronicle, record, or narrative whose internal timeline or causal sequence p…
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MS 4505.32
Incomplete History
An Incomplete History is an official archival designation, defined in the Guidelines for Narrative Integrity, Annex D-7 to the Third Concord…
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MS 1859.79
Independent Cartographers
The Independent Cartographers are a loosely-defined classification of surveyors, theorists, and spatial documentarians who reject the formal…
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MS 4365.45
Indexing Moths
Indexing Moths (Lepidoptera indagans), also classified under the provisional genus Papilio-Indexalis, are a sub-category of Archival Fauna r…
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MS 6298.13
Infinite Registry
The Infinite Registry is the central, self-modifying cataloging system of The Tower. Operated by the Office of Perpetual Affairs, it is a no…
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MS 2471.60
Ingress Points
An Ingress Point is any certified and physically coherent aperture, transition, or threshold that provides lawful and stable access from one…
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MS 5135.88
Inquiry into Persistent Anomalous Material Deficiency
The Inquiry into Persistent Anomalous Material Deficiency, formally designated Inquiry Dossier 899-A, was a protracted administrative and on…
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MS 0467.48
Inquisitor
Inquisitor refers to a Tower official convened to adjudicate a formal Scholastic Inquest. Inquisitors are drawn from a rotating pool of seni…
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MS 2882.42
Instrumental
An Instrumental is a formally recognized entity within the Tower whose existence, properties, or functions are certified as essential to a m…
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MS 8899.22
Instrumentalist School
The Instrumentalist School is a minor yet persistently documented tradition of archival philosophy that defines objects by their functional …
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MS 0306.04
Integration
Integration is the foundational administrative process through which novel, anomalous, or contradictory information is formalized into the a…
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MS 0536.44
Intent of Motion
Intent of Motion is a legal fiction established by Concordance 7.4.12 to resolve disputes arising from the use of non-stationary materials i…
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MS 8717.43
Intentional Cross-Examination
The Intentional Cross-Examination is a formal procedural mechanism, authorized under Addendum 17 and standardized by the Lyceum of Intention…
Arrangement within a series is by title. Box numbers describe the present arrangement and are not a permanent feature of the holding.