Governed Logic

Canonical definitions

Intelligence is downstream from logic and reasoning.

Governed Logic is the upstream, bidirectional reasoning architecture in which truth governs logic, logic governs reasoning, and reasoning remains answerable to its ultimate ground.

Governed Intelligence is the artificial-intelligence instantiation of Governed Logic.

A referent is that to which a representation refers.

Sufficiency asks whether a proposed ground can bear the explanatory, ontological, rational, semantic, or normative load placed upon it.

An ultimate ground is not grounded by something more fundamental in the same relevant respect.

First principles

Principles and governing referent

Truth is binary and non-negotiable, grounded in Jesus Christ the Logos.

As a correspondence definition, truth is correspondence to one reality.

Logic is binding.

Being is real.

Meaning is real.

Intelligibility is real.

Obligation is real and binding.

The governing referent is Jesus Christ, the Logos.