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Practices and doctrines — box 18 of 54
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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 1462.98
Integral Taxonomies
Integral Taxonomies is the formal discipline concerned with the cataloguing of systems whose defining properties are considered indivisible …
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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…
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MS 0233.15
Intentionalist
Intentionalist refers to a practitioner, adherent, or certified scholar of the Intentionalist School. The term is both a professional design…
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MS 7306.08
Intentionalist School
The Intentionalist School is a prominent body of thought within the Department of Applied Metaphysics dedicated to the primacy of authorial …
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MS 7727.74
Inter-Guild Logistical Network
The Inter-Guild Logistical Network (IGLN) is the formal designation for the integrated system of supply chains, transport corridors, and adm…
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MS 8749.90
Inter-Guild Relations
Inter-Guild Relations refers to the formalized protocols, customary practices, and frequent disputes governing interactions between the prof…
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MS 0502.21
Interment
Interment refers to the procedural isolation and containment of a Librarian found to be in a state of irresolvable ontological contradiction…
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MS 2654.78
Internal Regulatory Frameworks
Internal Regulatory Frameworks (colloquially, IRFs) constitute the structured set of procedures, administrative bodies, and documented prece…
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MS 0533.09
Interpretive
Interpretive denotes the specific procedural and methodological framework governing the resolution of textual ambiguity within archival hold…
Arrangement within a series is by title. Box numbers describe the present arrangement and are not a permanent feature of the holding.