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Temporal Relations — Comparison and Boundary Matrix

Status: draft Content canon status: unset

| Neighboring concept | What it already explains | What temporal standing must add | |---|---|---| | Personal identity | Continuity, connectedness, bodily and psychological criteria | Governance without resolving metaphysical identity | | Future-self continuity | Felt connection to later selves and future-oriented choice | Representation even when felt continuity is weak | | Intertemporal choice | Tradeoffs among present and future outcomes | Protected conditions, authority, and irreversible loss | | Commitment devices | Present self-binding against future preference change | Review, release, reliance, and anti-coercion safeguards | | Advance directives | Earlier preferences under later incapacity | Simultaneous representation of earlier autonomy and later welfare | | Fiduciary duty | Stewardship under entrusted power | Analogy for present governance, not literal legal classification | | Intergenerational justice | Duties to future people and shared inheritance | General standing records, versioned authority, and repair paths | | Legal standing for future generations | Jurisdiction-specific representation mechanisms | Broader moral and governance standing without false legal claims | | Institutional succession | Transfer of authority, assets, liabilities, and duties | Purpose, consent, data obligations, and unresolved repair | | Event sourcing | Append-only state-changing history and replay | Standing, consent, legitimacy, privacy, and release | | Temporal databases | Valid time and transaction time | Authority, scope, consent, and current interpretive status | | Temporal logic | Formal persistence, order, expiration, and eventuality | Constitutionally specified policies before formal enforcement | | Versioned policy | Traceable changes in governing terms | Material-change legibility, refusal, exit, and historical action mapping |

Governing distinctions

continuity ≠ perfect sameness
history ≠ continuing authority
commitment ≠ permanent sovereignty
consent remembered ≠ consent renewed
record persistence ≠ legitimacy
future representation ≠ future consent
release ≠ historical erasure
version accuracy ≠ constitutional validity

Candidate temporal states

ACTIVE
DUE_FOR_REVIEW
STALE
EXPIRED
WITHDRAWN
SUPERSEDED
CONTESTED
RELEASED
INCAPACITY_TRIGGERED

Hard boundary

The future may require representation without being invented as an authority that silences the present.