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Participation and AgencyUnder reviewConceptualisedControversy: low

Inclusive and Exclusive Participation

Does "we" include the listener?

A grammatical distinction between a first-person plural that includes the addressee and one that excludes them.

Graft transformationField record → structural reading → speculative construct → running machine
  1. T1 · Documented

    Field record pending — no linked language specimens yet.

    What linguistic research records.

  2. T2 · Interpreted

    collective identifiers rarely encode whether a caller or agent is inside the group

    How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.

  3. T3 · Proposed

    scoped identity sets

    Speculative constructs — not executable code.

  4. T4 · Executed

    Not yet compiled to a deterministic runtime.

    Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.

§ EvidenceFour tiers of verifiability

Each tier is a different kind of claim. We keep them visually distinct so a reader can never confuse a field record with a deterministic run.

T1Documented

Documented

What linguistic research records.

  • who is inside the group referred to
  • whether the listener is a participant
  • delegation and ownership boundaries
T2Interpreted

Interpreted

How Lanskrit reads the code deficit.

  • collective identifiers rarely encode whether a caller or agent is inside the group
  • delegation loses the participation boundary
T3Proposed

Proposed

Speculative constructs — not executable code.

  • scoped identity sets
  • capability grants with explicit inclusion
T4Executed

Executed

Deterministic runtime — the graft as running machinery.

No executable runtime yet. This capability has not been compiled to a deterministic machine.

Computational opportunities
  • multi-agent ownership
  • participation scope in permissions
  • delegation semantics
  • group accountability boundaries
Warnings against overgeneralisation
  • The distinction is grammatical in some languages and lexical in others; do not generalise to speakers' worldviews.
Documented in languages

No specific languages have been linked to this capability yet.

Cited as examples of the feature, not as claims about all speakers of these languages.

Related capabilities
Research status

Under review

Research source pending verification.

Frequently discussed candidate for a second graft. Requires trial design work.

Version
Record version
0.2
Last reviewed
2026-07-21
Controversy level
low