Boundaries, Rules & Discretion

Primes about drawing lines and the rules that govern within them: boundaries, segmentation, neighborhoods, and located-in relations, paired with rule systems that leave deliberate gaps for discretion, equity, incomplete contracts, and precedent under the rule of law.

14 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.

• Boundary — structural · crowded
• Close Reading — — · distinctive
• Commitment Device — framed · mid
• Dimension — structural · crowded
• Discretion — framed · crowded
• Equity — framed · distinctive
• Incomplete Contract — — · distinctive
• Located-In Relation — — · distinctive
• Neighborhood — — · mid
• Precedent (Stare Decisis) — framed · distinctive
• Predicate — — · crowded
• Rule of Law — — · crowded
• Segmentation and Boundary Drawing — mixed-framed · crowded
• Separation of Powers — framed · distinctive