The single stable entry point for the program. It performs two functions: it assigns a canonical, permanent identifier to each work so that any theorem is citable unambiguously at passage level, and it defines the controlled vocabulary and identifier classes that govern the companion Proof Layer. The register was instituted before cross-citation activity within the corpus began.

Abstract and Evidence Status

Abstract (verbatim from the Zenodo record)

This document constitutes the single stable entry point for the The Ontological Dominance Papers program: a ten-work research corpus comprising a survey/context paper, nine theorems formalizing Byrum's Law of Ontological Dominance, and this register. The register performs two functions. First, it establishes the identity layer, assigning a canonical, permanent identifier to each work in the program so that any theorem is citable unambiguously at passage level, independent of the paper from which the citation is drawn. Second, it defines the controlled vocabulary and identifier classes that govern the program's companion document, the proof layer (Section 8), which anchors externally challengeable claims to graded evidentiary sources. The register is instituted prior to cross-citation activity within the corpus. No citation collisions exist across the constituent works at the time of this register's establishment, and the canonical identifier system specified in Section 2 is designed to preclude such collisions as the corpus is formalized into working papers and cross-referenced.

Evidence status

Reference document rather than a theorem. It carries no verdict classification of its own.

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APA

Byrum, J. (2026). The Ontological Dominance Papers: Program Register [Working paper]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21685717

BibTeX

@techreport{byrum2026_od0,
  author       = {Byrum, Joseph},
  title        = {The Ontological Dominance Papers: Program Register},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = jul,
  type         = {Working paper},
  institution  = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.21685717},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21685717}
}

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21685717 · Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/21685717

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