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Conviction Form

Core question: “What do we believe is true about the world?”

An assertion about reality that isn’t self-evident. Others may disagree. Convictions ground values and principles but are themselves products of experience and reasoning. Near-immutable; a change in conviction represents a fundamental shift.

Structural Contract

A conviction form requires:

• The conviction — A clear assertion about how the world works. Not a preference (value) or a constraint (principle) — a claim about reality.
• Grounding — What experience, reasoning, or evidence supports this conviction.
• Implications — What values and principles follow from holding this conviction.
• Sources — Origin material or experiences the conviction emerged from.
• Relations — Connections to values it grounds and principles it enables.

Naming heuristic: declarative claim about reality. State the conviction, not the topic. “Values Precede Technical Decisions” not “Values-First Design Conviction.”

Typical Predicates

• is_a::[\[\[Conviction Form\]\]](Conviction%20Form.html)
• has_status::[\[\[Seed Stage\]\]](Seed%20Stage.html) or [\[\[Evergreen Stage\]\]](Evergreen%20Stage.html)
• in_domain::[\[\[Domain Name\]\]↑](../NODES.html#:~:text=Domain%20Name)
• grounds::[\[\[Value\]\]↑](../NODES.html#:~:text=Value) — values this conviction supports
• relates_to::[\[\[Principle Form\]\]](Principle%20Form.html) — principles derived from this conviction

Exemplars

• [[Authentic Collaboration Requires Agency]] — grounded in decades of experience across groupware, SSL/TLS, self-sovereign identity, Bitcoin, and cooperative game design
• [[Values Precede Technical Decisions]] — values-to-design ordering tested across SSL/TLS, self-sovereign identity, deep context architecture, and Blockchain Commons

Category

Orientation form — establishes what matters and what we believe.

Sources

Definition from [[Deep Context as an Architecture for Captured Reasoning]], line 47.

Relations

• relates_to::[[Value Form]] — convictions ground values
• relates_to::[[Principle Form]] — principles derive from conviction-grounded values

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