The Symbolic World
families · instrumentality

relation family

instrumentality

assigned, not verified What this family covers, what it fails to cover, and every relation string in the graph that lands in it. A family is assigned: two models read the definitions document and named the same kind of relation, or a person ruled where they did not. Verified is the other layer: a quote checked letter-exact against its paragraph and judged by a model of a different family. That was already done before any of this began.

27 assigned relations 25 effective relation strings 8 queued items carry a string this family covers 0 declared pairs
graph-wide: 1669 assigned · 354 awaiting a ruling · 65 no family · 3 text undecided · 2091 relations

Definition

Quoted from docs/FAMILY_DEFINITIONS.md v0.7.2, family 25, added at v0.4 — earned by measured refusal; slot rule v0.7.2. The atlas quotes that document; it never paraphrases it.

One term is the MEANS by which the other is reached, enabled, effected or made possible; the means term may sit in either slot (see seeds). Not what happens, but what it happens through.

Boundary: telos names the END pursued; instrumentality names the route to it (homo-maximus is-approached-through the-opus — the opus is the road, the homo maximus the destination). Not dependence: a precondition must be satisfied before, a means is used to. Not psychic-effect: the subject is not acted upon by the object, it travels by it.

Evidence for the addition: both model arms of the step-0 test refused items this family now covers, independently and with converging reasons — Gemini on homo-maximus is-approached-through the-opus ("an instrument/means relation is not covered by the existing families") and both arms on temenos enables-meeting-with the-unconscious ("an instrumental/affordance relation does not fit structural-position, dependence, or psychic-effect"). 13 strings and 13 edges in the live vocabulary carry the sense.

Relation strings that land here

mediates 3armed-with 1conceives-through 1contributes-to 1creates 1discovers 1elucidates 1employs 1employs-method-of 1enables 1enables-meeting-with 1generates-through 1and 13 more, 13 relations between them

The number beside a string is how many relations carry it. 24 of these strings occur exactly once. The tail is the informative part: a string used once usually carried its own qualifier in the sentence it came from. A string can appear under more than one family, and does: assignment is made to an edge in its paragraph, never to a string in the abstract.

seeds: the examples the definition names

pending a ruling: items carrying a string this family covers

Arsenic (arsenicum) mediates Coniunctio CW 14 §195
calibration-flag (v0.7.2 run 3: the quote's "means whereby" fits the new slot-flexible instrumentality rule; label predates the ruling)
Anima operates-through Projection CW 9i §58
arms-disagree
Syzygy (the divine pair) is-perceived-through Projection CW 9i §130
arms-disagree
Animus operates-through Projection CW 9i §350
arms-disagree
Mandala reveals The collective unconscious CW 9i §645
arms-disagree
Spontaneous fantasy reveals The unconscious CW 8 §155
arms-disagree

2 more. These are edges whose two model arms did not agree, or whose agreement the calibrated gate disputed. They carry a relation string this family covers, which is not the same as belonging here. The ruling has not been made, and the queue is not a backlog to be cleared by machine.

Checked against readers of Jung

Checked against 8 works of scholarship: across the sample, 8 of 16 treated items agreed with our family. The sample did not reach this family.the whole table
familyagreesdisagreessplitnot treated
archetypal-identity (incl. 26)0/31/32/32
correspondence (incl. 27)2/31/30/32
symbolization3/30/30/31
doctrinal-attribution1/21/20/21
amplification0/33/30/30
controls (personif., union)2/20/20/20
All8/166/162/166

A row this small is the items themselves; no rate over a handful of items carries precision worth reporting. The check asked which kind of relation a reader of the literature would say Jung asserts, not whether Jung's claim is true, which the verification chain had already asked of the paragraph. The disagreements stand beside the agreements because hiding them would make the table an argument rather than a record. Full worksheets: docs/experiments/external_validity_2026-08/.

Agreement is not endorsement: no scholar reviewed this vocabulary, and the sample is small enough to name in a sentence.

receipts counts read from seed.json sha256:9dc668bfff36 via web/family-map.mjs;
definition and seeds quoted from docs/FAMILY_DEFINITIONS.md v0.7.2;
external-validity row from docs/experiments/external_validity_2026-08/results.json (report v3, closed 2026-08-12);
built 2026-09-05

These families are this project's classification. They are calibrated inside this repository, checked once against outside scholarship on a small sample, and endorsed by nobody. What the layer records is how we sorted relations Jung wrote: a map of assertions, not a reading of him.