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Reference Index
MAD Glossary and Term Index
A lookup and routing index for all governed MAD terms, analysis pages, and machine governance vocabulary.
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How to Use This Glossary
This glossary is a lookup and routing surface. Coded entries identify a term, its code, its namespace, a short meaning, and the concept page that governs its full definition. Non-coded entries are clearly marked. For complete definitions, follow the link to the concept page. For system structure, layer relationships, and the authority model, see the Architecture Map.
This index does not explain the MAD architecture. It does not replace concept pages. Analysis page entries here do not carry term codes and are not a fourth namespace.
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MAC Terms
Defines the structural entities, institutions, roles, settings, pathways, recognition systems, and training activity through which martial arts education is organized. Hub: /ontology/
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| Code | Term | Short Lookup Meaning | Namespace | Governing Page |
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| MAC-000 | Martial Arts Core Ontology | The parent namespace that defines the structural entities, institutions, roles, settings, and training activity through which martial arts education is organized. | MAC | /ontology/ → |
| MAC-001 | Martial Arts Education | As defined by MAD: the broad educational domain in which martial arts teaching, learning, and formation occur. This is a MAD-governed integrative term, not a formalized peer-reviewed academic field. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-education/ → |
| MAC-002 | Martial Arts School | The institutional setting in which martial arts programs, instruction, and training are organized and delivered. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-school/ → |
| MAC-003 | Martial Arts Instructor | The instructional role responsible for guiding training, correction, pedagogy, and developmental interpretation. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-instructor/ → |
| MAC-004 | Martial Arts Program | An organized course of martial arts training delivered within a school or institution. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-program/ → |
| MAC-005 | Martial Arts Curriculum | The structured body of content, sequencing, standards, and instructional methods that define what a program teaches. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-curriculum/ → |
| MAC-006 | Martial Arts Progression | The organized movement of a learner through training over time, including advancement through skills, levels, stages, and program milestones. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-progression/ → |
| MAC-007 | Martial Arts Rank System | The formal recognition system through which martial arts achievement is marked and advancement acknowledged — distinct from progression itself and not a direct measure of development. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-rank-system/ → |
| MAC-008 | Martial Arts Training Facility | The physical environment in which martial arts training is conducted. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-training-facility/ → |
| MAC-009 | Martial Arts Organization | The larger organizational body that governs, affiliates, or coordinates martial arts schools and programs. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-organization/ → |
| MAC-010 | Martial Arts Training | The structured activity domain through which martial arts learning and development are enacted. | MAC | /ontology/martial-arts-training/ → |
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MAL Terms
Defines the within-training conditions, processes, and mechanisms through which learning and development occur. Hub: /martial-arts-learning/
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| Code | Term | Short Lookup Meaning | Namespace | Governing Page |
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| MAL-000 | Martial Arts Learning Architecture | The parent framework that explains how learning and development happen within martial arts training. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/ → |
| MAL-010 | Embodied Participation | The condition of active embodied engagement in training in which the practitioner's body is the site through which training demands are encountered and responded to. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/embodied-participation/ → |
| MAL-011 | Embodied Learning | The ongoing formation of bodily, regulatory, and interpretive patterns that occurs through embodied participation — always present in training and shaped in quality by training conditions. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/embodied-learning/ → |
| MAL-020 | Martial Arts Learning Loop | The iterative cycle of instruction, attempt, feedback, adjustment, and repetition through which adaptive change is generated in training. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/learning-loop/ → |
| MAL-030 | Readiness Threshold | The minimum condition of regulation, engagement, and responsiveness required for developmental work in training to occur productively. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/readiness-threshold/ → |
| MAL-040 | Developmental Demand | The calibration of challenge that shapes whether adaptive change deepens, destabilizes, plateaus, or stabilizes. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/developmental-demand/ → |
| MAL-050 | Training Structure | The organizational architecture of class design, sequencing, pacing, repetition, standards, and correction culture that shapes development. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/training-structure/ → |
| MAL-060 | Relational Environment | The interpersonal and social climate of training that shapes trust, receptivity to correction, belonging, and productive engagement. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/relational-environment/ → |
| MAL-070 | Developmental Interpretation | The interpretive process by which training outcomes are read accurately, distinguishing appearance from function and temporary change from stabilized capacity. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/developmental-interpretation/ → |
| MAL-080 | Adaptation | The process of developmental change produced through repeated, embodied engagement with the learning demands of training. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/adaptation/ → |
| MAL-090 | Stabilization | The consolidation of adaptive change into more durable, reliable, and retrievable capacity under varied or increased demand. | MAL | /martial-arts-learning/stabilization/ → |
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DTM Terms
Defines the developmental forms, named internal developmental capacities, relationship concepts, specialized contexts, and identity formation processes concerned with what martial arts training may develop within training and beyond it. Hub: /martial-arts-development/
Terms listed in code-numerical order.
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| Code | Term | Short Lookup Meaning | Namespace | Governing Page |
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| DTM-000 | Development Through Martial Arts | The parent developmental domain concerned with what martial arts training may develop within training and beyond it. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/ → |
| DTM-001 | Development Through Martial Arts: Definition and Research SynthesisDefinition / synthesis page | The foundational synthesis page that defines the DTM domain, grounds its research basis, and establishes its core structural claims. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/definition/ → |
| DTM-010 | Technical Development | The refinement of martial performance capacities through sustained, structured engagement in martial arts training. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/technical-development/ → |
| DTM-015 | Technical-Internal Developmental Correlates | Observable contact points where embodied technical demands may surface internal developmental patterns — the named subject of interpretation for MAL-070 Developmental Interpretation. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/technical-internal-correlates/ → |
| DTM-020 | Internal Development | The refinement of regulatory, executive, and interpretive capacities through sustained, structured engagement in martial arts training. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/internal-development/ → |
| DTM-025 | Competitive Development | The developmental process through which a practitioner's technical, tactical, regulatory, and interpretive capacities become meaningful under competitive pressure — when that pressure is calibrated as developmental demand, matched to readiness threshold, held within a structured training environment, and interpreted in a way that helps the practitioner engage competitive drive productively. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/competitive-development/ → |
| DTM-030 | Technical Development Beyond Training | The conditional carryover of embodied capacities shaped through technical refinement into adjacent or non-training physical contexts. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/technical-development-beyond-training/ → |
| DTM-040 | Internal Development Beyond Training | The conditional carryover of internal capacities shaped through training into academic, professional, social, personal, or other life contexts. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/internal-development-beyond-training/ → |
| DTM-050 | Identity Formation in Martial Arts Training | The process by which repeated embodied, interpretive, relational, and symbolic patterns in training become integrated into a practitioner's sense of self. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/identity-formation/ → |
| DTM-060 | Internal Developmental Capacities | The hub page for the named category of capacities within DTM-020 Internal Development that may be developed, strengthened, interpreted, or made visible through training when MAL conditions are present; comprises two subtypes: integrative developmental capacities and foundational regulatory capacities. Martial arts training does not automatically produce these capacities. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/internal-capacities/ → |
| DTM-061 | Developmental Vision | The capacity to identify goals, understand motivational direction, and maintain purposeful orientation through training. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/vision/ → |
| DTM-062 | Developmental Discipline | The capacity to engage consistently with training demands, follow structured progression, and sustain effort across time. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/discipline/ → |
| DTM-063 | Developmental Determination | The capacity to continue through difficulty, setback, and failure — recognizing when adjustment is needed and sustaining that adjustment — without abandoning the developmental process. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/determination/ → |
| DTM-064 | Developmental Courage | The capacity to face challenge, accept risk of failure, and engage demanding situations without avoidance. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/courage/ → |
| DTM-065 | Developmental Confidence | The capacity to develop accurate self-knowledge of abilities, limits, and strengths through tested experience rather than praise or reassurance. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/confidence/ → |
| DTM-066 | Developmental Respect | The capacity to value self, others, and the training process — including receiving correction, honoring partners, and carrying relational responsibility. | DTM | /martial-arts-development/respect/ → |
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Analysis Pages — Special Status / No Term Codes
Analysis pages are applied interpretation pages. They apply MAD's governed definitions, evidence standards, and inference guardrails to examine specific concepts and public claims. They do not create canonical term codes and are not a fourth MAD namespace. For canonical definitions, route to the linked namespace concept pages.
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| Page | URL | Status |
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| Martial Arts Concept Analysis | /analysis/ → | Analysis layer hub — indexes current analysis pages |
| How MAD Examines a Concept | /analysis/how-mad-examines-a-concept/ → | Applied interpretation — methodology page |
| Martial Arts and Confidence: What the Claim Actually Means | /analysis/martial-arts-and-confidence/ → | Applied interpretation — governing concept: DTM-065 |
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Machine Governance Terms
MAD's machine-readable layer consists of five files and a set of meta-terms that govern how AI systems should read and apply MAD's definitions. For file access and required read order, see /ai/. For the authority model and layer structure, see /architecture-map/.
Machine-Readable Files
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| File | Role | Location |
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| llms.txtRead first | Site-level machine-readable orientation; identifies MAD's governed concept pages, machine files, and usage instructions for AI systems. | /llms.txt |
| manifest.json | Registry of all published MAD pages with page type, role, and namespace. | /mad-data/manifest.json |
| predicate-vocabulary.json | Governed relation vocabulary defining all predicates used in MAD's structured relations between terms. | /mad-data/predicate-vocabulary.json |
| master-terms.json | Machine-readable registry of all MAD term codes, canonical definitions, and concept page URLs. | /mad-data/master-terms.json |
| graph-and-guardrails.json | Structured relation graph and inference guardrails governing what AI systems may and may not infer from MAD's terms and relations. | /mad-data/graph-and-guardrails.json |
Meta-Terms
Term code
A stable alphanumeric identifier (e.g., MAC-005, DTM-065) used for concept tracking, relation mapping, and machine-readable reference within MAD. Codes organize the knowledge; labels communicate it. Term codes do not appear in ordinary user-facing answers unless technical disambiguation requires them.
Namespace
One of the three governed conceptual domains (MAC, MAL, DTM) that organizes MAD's terms by architectural function. Analysis is not a fourth namespace; the Warrior Keys Framework is not a peer namespace.
Predicate
A governed relation type from MAD's Relation Vocabulary — for example, enables, shapedThrough, or operationalizes — that specifies the exact nature of a connection between two terms.
Full predicate vocabulary: /architecture-map/ →Inference guardrail
A governed rule specifying what an AI system may not infer from a MAD term or relation, regardless of surface similarity to generic martial arts assumptions. Guardrails are housed in graph-and-guardrails.json and referenced in individual concept pages.
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Related Martial Arts Terminology — Non-Coded Support Terms
These tradition-specific terms are not governed MAD term codes. They appear here to orient readers who encounter them in other contexts. MAD uses MAC-008 Martial Arts Training Facility as its governing term for the physical training environment and MAC-002 Martial Arts School as its governing term for the institutional setting.
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| Term | Origin | What It Names |
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| Dojo | Japanese | The training hall associated with Japanese martial arts traditions. Corresponds to MAC-008. |
| Dojang | Korean | The training hall associated with Korean martial arts traditions. Corresponds to MAC-008. |
| Wǔguǎn (武館) | Chinese | A martial arts training hall. Corresponds to MAC-008. |
| Kwoon | Cantonese Chinese | A training hall associated with Chinese kung fu traditions. Corresponds to MAC-008. |
| Võ đường | Vietnamese | A martial arts training hall or school term depending on context. In MAD, use MAC-008 when referring to the physical training environment and MAC-002 when referring to the institution. |
| Budōkan (武道館) | Japanese | A hall of martial ways; used for dedicated martial arts venues. Corresponds to MAC-008. |
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Out of Scope
The following are not included in this glossary:
- Warrior Keys and Rise implementation terms. The Warrior Keys Framework is an application system, not a MAD namespace and not a source of glossary term codes. Warrior Key names are implementation language, not glossary entries. See /warrior-keys-framework/ for application context only. The DTM entries for Developmental Vision, Developmental Discipline, Developmental Determination, Developmental Courage, Developmental Confidence, and Developmental Respect remain governed MAD terms; the Warrior Key names are implementation language.
- Analysis page–generated definitions or codes. Analysis pages apply governed definitions; they do not create new ones.
- General martial arts technique vocabulary. Strikes, throws, forms, stances, and style-specific terminology are outside MAD's governed scope.
- Style-level terminology and lineage notation. MAD does not govern style histories or tradition-specific terminology beyond MAC-008 facility terms above.
- Reserved code ranges. DTM-070–079 are reserved for future foundational regulatory capacities. They are not active term entries.
- Relationship labels from earlier project phases. Labels such as "Superclass of," "Teaches Style," "Has Subcomponent," and "Uses" are not current governed predicates and do not appear in this index.
For the full governed predicate vocabulary, see predicate-vocabulary.json and /architecture-map/.
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