Ontology emerges from governed semantic flow¶
Start with accountable meaning in bounded contexts. As products are shared and composed, record mappings, equivalences, differences and conflicts with provenance and review.
The resulting ontology represents governed relationships between meanings; it should not overwrite local language by decree. An automated suggestion is a proposal until the appropriate owners validate it.
The practical test is whether a change in one context can be understood, assessed and propagated across dependent products without relying on undocumented human translation.
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