All tracks. keep terms stable when moving between field practice, research coding, institutional review, and Christian discernment.
- Term | Meaning
- Incoming reality | The event, data, testimony, diagnosis, failure, discovery, or repeated pattern that creates pressure.
- Factual model | What a person or community expects reality to do.
- Meaning frame | The identity, faith, values, mission, loyalty, hope, or worldview that gives events meaning.
- Prediction error | The mismatch between incoming reality and the factual model.
- Meaning gap | Pressure on identity, duty, faith, hope, loyalty, or another meaning-bearing commitment. Pressure can persist when the commitment is true and the event was expected.
- Source trust | The assessed credibility of the channel carrying the signal, based on access, method, incentives, accountability, and exposure to correction; not merely whether the source agrees with me.
- Capacity | The embodied, relational, clinical, communal, and temporal ability to process pressure without coercion, collapse, or premature closure.
- Agency | The person's power to understand, deliberate, and respond through actual capacities and conditions. AG records a proposed warranted action; it does not measure all agency or guilt.
- Truthful action | Action that stays faithful to reality, warranted responsibility, and the deepest truthful meaning available.
- Faithful action | In Christian use, truthful action taken before God in truth, love, repentance, protection, obedience, patience, or repair.
- Reality-contact | Increased contact with evidence, testimony, measurement, pattern, and embodied consequence.
- Meaning-contact | Increased honesty about the meaning frame, including where it must deepen, break, or be corrected.
- Truthful resonance | Integration that increases reality-contact, meaning-contact, and truthful action.
- False resonance | Relief that lowers discomfort while preserving distortion.
- False closure | A premature sense of resolution that avoids evidence, lament, protection, repentance, repair, or needed uncertainty.
- Breach profile | A practical field notation for PE, MG, ST, CAP, and AG . It is not a validated score.
- Green pressure | Ordinary surprise or disagreement that can be processed with simple reflection.
- Yellow pressure | High-stakes or repeated pressure requiring counsel, notes, and review.
- Red pressure | Danger, abuse, coercion, medical risk, self-harm risk, psychosis, severe trauma activation, credible threat, or cover-up requiring safety and qualified help first.
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