Interpretive Event

The active window in which interpretation can govern action

1. Canonical Definition

An interpretive event is the bounded interval in which interpretation is active and candidate meanings are evaluated, bound, and routed relative to declared reference conditions. An interpretive event begins when a reference condition becomes decision-relevant under an admissible system boundary and ends when its Event Closure State is resolved.

2. Phase and Preconditions

Operates: event-internal

Requires:

• an admissible system boundary

• a reference condition treated as decision-relevant

• interpretive jurisdiction

Does not require:

• binding

• action execution

• crystallization

• legitimacy

3. Scope and Exclusions

An interpretive event is not:

• a psychological episode or mental state

• a decision outcome

• equivalent to binding or meaning

• a post-event regime or baseline

• a temporal persistence structure

It is the container within which interpretive operations occur.

4. Structural Role

The interpretive event defines the jurisdictional and temporal scope within which interpretation may produce action-governing meaning. All event-internal operations—including interpretive dynamics, constraint dominance, transition forces, binding, Action-Governing Meaning (AGM), and response routing—occur only within an active interpretive event.

An interpretive event may resolve to closure or remain explicitly open as specified by its Event Closure State.

5. Authority and Legitimacy Status

Authority relation: contextual
Legitimacy relation: not applicable

Authority and legitimacy do not attach to the event itself. They become relevant only at binding, where meaning regime classification occurs.

6. Relation to Event Closure State and Re-Opening

Event Closure State determines whether an interpretive event terminates with closure or continues in an explicitly open state. Action Determinacy Loss (ADL) initiates a new interpretive event when an existing governing baseline can no longer deterministically route action relative to reference conditions treated as in force.

7. Common Category Errors

• Treating the interpretive event as a decision or outcome

• Collapsing the event into binding or closure

• Treating interpretation as continuously active outside events

• Confusing post-closure regimes with event-internal operations

8. Canonical Cross-References

Interpretation • Interpretive Jurisdiction • Interpretive Dynamics • Binding • Action-Governing Meaning (AGM) • Response Routing • Event Closure State • Action Determinacy Loss (ADL)

9. Plain Statement

An interpretive event is the period during which meaning is still being decided and action has not yet been settled.