Carrier / Neighbours
Let the language
find its neighbours.
One concept opens onto another. Follow a thread, explore a family, and keep the differences that make each meaning useful.
Carrier grows through meanings and the relationships between them. This explorer makes those relationships visible, from the familiar centre to the quieter edges.
A reviewed edition. The first organic revision was proposed with AI assistance and approved by Lucid, the founder. Each new relationship carries its reason and its limits.
2 October 2026 · a pinned release, with a path to the living Carrier.Meanings that emerged from the revision
These entries describe what connections need in order to remain useful: explicit warrants, preserved differences, careful correction and evidence for a genuinely missing distinction. Their definitions were reviewed and admitted with this release.
Trace a reference chain
Find a shortest navigable route between two records. A route connects references; it does not prove a sentence or transfer truth between them.
From local to wider context
Neighbour circles begin at the selected concept, then expand one reference step at a time: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6+ steps. An outer circle gathers concepts with no connecting path.
The seven-state vocabulary offers a separate perspective on scale. Physical scales, imagined possibilities and graph distance keep their different meanings.
The Infinite is a named concept here. A finite graph does not become infinite by drawing more circles.
Curated reading threads
An itinerary invites a particular reading. Each step identifies a recorded connection or a juxtaposition chosen by the author. The thread's stated boundary remains part of the reading.
A missing link is not always a missing meaning.
An older concept may have acquired new neighbours without ever being revisited. A densely connected idea may be useful infrastructure, while an isolated one may preserve a precise distinction. The map gives us questions worth asking.
A complete definition review
The organic revision inspected all 2,443 checked definitions in its starting state, recording an individual AI review note for each. Relationships were proposed against the actual definitions, then submitted for the founder's review.
The approved release adds twelve new definitions. Earlier definitions and allocated colours remain preserved; the relational edition has a new checked head.
Connections with reasons
“Referenced by” is computed from the checked records in this release. It shows where a reference occurs, rather than agreement, endorsement or conceptual equivalence.
New typed relationships distinguish association, contrast, analogy, specialization and operationalization. Each retains a rationale and a boundary. Navigation can follow them both ways; directional semantic claims retain their source and target.
Families and threads
A concept can belong to more than one editorial family. Its first assigned family places its dot; the filter includes every assigned family. Position and distance on that layout do not measure similarity.
Neighbour circles use actual graph distance. Threads are authored itineraries; an explicitly marked juxtaposition is not silently promoted into a relation.
Approval and scope
Lucid approved the complete relationship set and all twelve consolidated concept drafts. That records an editorial decision within Carrier. It does not make a reference an inference rule or settle every future application of a definition.
The inherited LEGACY_ID_HISTORY warning concerns earlier reuse of working IDs w3–w9. The historical record is preserved; this explorer displays checked concepts.
This published graph
What the navigation trial found
Before admission of the twelve new concepts, a reproducible trial compared the 2,443-concept graph before and after the proposed links. These are historical results from synthetic journeys, separate from the size of the published graph above.
How meaning can grow carefully
Composition before multiplication
Two existing concepts can already express a new thought. A new entry is most useful when it preserves a reusable distinction that the existing vocabulary leaves difficult to state.
The review retained nearby alternatives, counterexamples and draft lineage. Approval is not a proof that no other vocabulary could express the same distinction.
Preserve the boundary
Shared wording can help retrieve a neighbour. It cannot establish a meaningful relationship on its own. Likewise, a shorter path through a graph cannot establish better understanding.
Keep the roles, conditions, attribution, uncertainty and negation that make a composed expression precise. A chain of associations is not a chain of proof.
A release you can inspect
This page carries a fixed reviewed graph, so its relationships remain reproducible. It makes no background requests and does not silently substitute a newer dictionary. Visit the live Reading Room for the current Carrier.