Observable patterns in relational dynamics. Each phenomenon describes something that shows up when relational structures interact, stabilize, or determine one another.
Phenomena are distinct from processes (things that happen) and terms (formal vocabulary). A phenomenon is what becomes visible; a process is what produces it.
Phenomena
- Incitement — what incomplete structure compels as next step
- Induction — what completed structure produces as output
- Closure — the settling of structure under iteration
- Reflexion — the turning-back that produces self-reference
- Residuation — the adjunction connecting dual operations
- Coherence — things holding together consistently
- Recognition — what is established by acts of distinction
- Balance — Frobenius compatibility of dual containments
- Co-presence — multiple units maintained in differentiated shared existence
- Relational tension — structured tension between distinct co-present units