IAQ LEXICON
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Every IAQ article can introduce a new concept, reveal a hidden mechanism, or give a name to a pattern that did not have one before. When an idea becomes strong enough, it may enter the Lexicon.
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IAQ Lexicon
Context Attrition
The record keeps what happened after forgetting what made it happen.
The gradual loss of circumstances, constraints, intentions, and local meaning as an event moves through records, summaries, databases, and institutional time. Context Attrition allows the durable error code, violation, or outcome to survive after the narrative needed to interpret it fairly has disappeared.
Examples
- a disciplinary code surviving after the explanation is deleted
- a database retaining an error without the corrected circumstances
- a case summary losing the constraints visible to the original decision maker
- a repeated report shortening a complex event into one label
- an old institutional warning remaining after its local meaning is forgotten
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Placed beneath Institutional Memory because institutional storage preserves different kinds of information unevenly: standardized violations and outcomes remain durable while explanatory narrative decays across transfer and time.