Lexicon · term

Fixity requirement

Sacredness requires fixity: an artifact is a decision made permanent. Endlessly revisable drafts belong to no one and cannot be built upon.

Used in

Artifacts all the way down

Human judgment enters at the beginning, travels through the chain, and returns at acceptance

Introduced here.
Fire one true thing

A draft becomes knowledge when a person makes it true, theirs, and finished
The fixity requirement

Knowledge you can build on has stopped being generated