03 Third Order/Domains/Language/Term Drift

Term Drift

Term drift occurs when a word recurs while its structural participation changes.

Trace

• Language Domain supplies the branch condition in which term drift is read.
• Term supplies the structural unit whose drift is evaluated.
• Recurrence supplies repeated appearance.
• Difference supplies changed participation.
• Compatibility supplies the check that repeated use still carries the same dependency position.

Read

Term Drift becomes readable where recurrence of a term no longer carries the same dependency position.

Placement Mode

Domain: Language Domain

Primary mode: Communicating

Secondary modes: Knowing, Transforming

Term Drift is primarily placed by communicating because word recurrence no longer preserves structural participation.

Order Trace

First: Difference changes participation.

Second: Recurrence and Compatibility make repeated term use evaluable.

Third: Term Drift places that structural read inside language.

Case Movement

term recurs
→ participation changes
→ dependency position shifts
→ apparent sameness becomes drift

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