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Gloss Form

Core question: “What does this specific source or concept mean?”

An interpretive annotation anchored to particular sources. Thesis-driven synthesis with organized citations. The atomic unit of interpretation. A gloss interprets what specific sources or concepts mean — it doesn’t record a choice (decision), state a constraint (principle), or generalize from experience (pattern).

Stable once written; may spawn new glosses as understanding deepens.

Structural Contract

A gloss form requires:

• Opening thesis — A clear interpretive claim about the source or concept, stated in the first paragraph. Not a summary — a position.
• Interpretation — The body develops the thesis with evidence from the source(s). Section headings vary by topic.
• Sources — Cited sources anchoring the interpretation.
• Relations — Connections to other nodes the gloss informs or draws from.

Naming heuristic: source + thesis. Mix based on how strong the interpretation is — a gloss dominated by one source foregrounds the source name; one making a novel synthesis foregrounds the thesis.

Typical Predicates

• is_a::[\[\[Gloss Form\]\]](Gloss%20Form.html)
• has_status::[\[\[Seed Stage\]\]](Seed%20Stage.html) or [\[\[Growing Stage\]\]](Growing%20Stage.html)
• in_domain::[\[\[Deep Context Architecture\]\]](../domains/Deep%20Context%20Architecture.html)
• extracted_from::[\[\[Source Document\]\]↑](../NODES.html#:~:text=Source%20Document) — provenance with optional line numbers
• relates_to::[\[\[Related Form\]\]↑](../NODES.html#:~:text=Related%20Form) — lateral connections
• defines_vocabulary_from::[\[\[Source\]\]↑](../NODES.html#:~:text=Source) — when defining terms from decisions or research

Exemplars

• [[Deep Context Graph Vocabulary]] — consolidates 7 terms from compound document decisions
• [[PARA as Actionability-First Design]]↑ — interprets Forte’s PARA through a specific lens
• [[Digital Garden as Growth Ethos]]↑ — glosses the digital garden concept against vault architecture

Category

Structural form — captures how things relate and what we understand.

Sources

Definition from [[Deep Context as an Architecture for Captured Reasoning]], lines 65-66.

Relations

• relates_to::[[Inquiry Form]] — inquiries may resolve into glosses when interpretation solidifies
• relates_to::[[Decision Form]] — glosses often define vocabulary used by decisions
• relates_to::[[Model Form]] — glosses interpret concepts that models structure

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