A few short walks through the Atlas — read in order, not by index.
Each trail is a curated sequence of three or four capabilities, chosen because reading them together sharpens a single question. Trails do not add new claims; they order existing ones.
- 01Curated
From evidence to uncertainty
Four capabilities that trace how a claim earns — or loses — commitment.
Holding questionWhat does software lose when it treats every value as equally certain?
Route- 01Evidentiality
- 02Modality, Obligation and Possibility
- 03Mirativity and Unexpected Information
- 04Relationship and Social Authority
Walk the trail → - 02Curated
Perspective & audience
How languages track who is in the room and who benefits from what is said.
Holding questionWhose interests and inclusion are silently assumed by our data models?
Route- 01Inclusive and Exclusive Participation
- 02Benefactive and Affected-Party Marking
- 03Politeness and Register
- 04Topic and Focus
Walk the trail → - 03Curated
Time, change, causation
Capabilities that carve up how events unfold and who set them in motion.
Holding questionHow would a system reason about change if time were a first-class citizen?
Route- 01Aspect and Event State
- 02Temporal Reference
- 03Causativity and Agency
- 04Switch-Reference
Walk the trail → - 04Curated
How things are shaped and counted
The quiet grammar of quantity, kind, and spatial arrangement.
Holding questionWhat might type systems inherit from languages that classify what a thing is before counting it?
Route- 01Classifier Systems
- 02Grammatical Number
- 03Reduplication, Repetition and Intensity
- 04Spatial Frames of Reference
Walk the trail →