https://emsenn.net/types/process-procedure-derivation-inquiry/ Recent content in Process, Procedure, Derivation, Inquiry on emsenn.net Hugo en Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/sociology/domains/work/terms/work/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/sociology/domains/work/terms/work/ <p>Work is an <a href="../../../../terms/act.md" class="link-internal">act</a> with a defined output. It restricts the general concept of action — what a <a href="../../../../terms/thing.md" class="link-internal">thing</a> does that produces change — to episodes with nameable results. An act that produces nothing nameable is not work; it is time spent. Work inherits from act the structure of capacity realization: something has the potential to produce an output, and work is the episode where that potential is realized.</p> <p>This is the base concept. All organized activity is work when it has a defined output. The four types of work — <a href="./process.md" class="link-internal">process</a>, <a href="./procedure.md" class="link-internal">procedure</a>, derivation, and <a href="./inquiry.md" class="link-internal">inquiry</a> — are specializations based on which <a href="../../../../terms/quality.md" class="link-internal">qualities</a> of the action are settled. Two qualities matter: whether the <em>meaning</em> of the output is known (meaning-settled) and whether the <em>execution path</em> to produce it is known (execution-settled). Process has both settled. Inquiry has neither. Procedure and derivation each have one.</p>