Concept
Legitimacy
Legitimacy is justified recognition of authority—whether power reads as earned and contestable enough that coordination holds under stress instead of collapsing into cynicism, performative compliance, or hidden veto by drift.
Incoming relationships
Neighboring terrain
concept
Authority
Authority is operational coordination power—the recognized right to steer, allocate, or constrain action—always in tension with legitimacy and with whether consequence stays visible enough under scale for coordination to remain contestable rather than brittle.
concept
Correction
Correction is reality-contact and revisability: the lived work of noticing mismatch, updating beliefs or behavior, and narrowing the gap between what was assumed and what is actually happening before drift hardens into normal.
book
Coupling