Sources — Foundations of Contextual Stability
The references below are organized as a developmental chain describing how meaning, interpretation, context, decision processes, and formal knowledge structures became progressively formalized across disciplines.
Semiotic Foundations
The foundational question concerns how meaning emerges from signs and interpretation.
Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (1931–1958)
https://archive.org/details/collectedpaperso0000unse_v0n0/page/n3/mode/2up
Context and Meaning
The next stage examines how context influences interpretation and the formation of meaning.
Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)
https://archive.org/details/stepstoecologyof00bate
Decision and Knowledge
Meaning becomes operational through interpretation, judgment, and decision processes.
Administrative Behavior (1947)
https://archive.org/details/administrativebe0000simo_f3b1
Knowledge Representation
Concepts, relationships, and contextual assumptions become structured and representable.
A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications (1993)
https://doi.org/10.1006/knac.1993.1008
Formal Context Structures
Knowledge structures become machine-readable through formal semantic frameworks.
W3CRDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax (2014)
https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/
Structural Interpretation
Taken together, these references describe a progression from meaning formation to formal contextual representation.
Meaning
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Interpretation
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Context
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Sensemaking
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Decision
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Knowledge Structure
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Formal Representation