Vocabulary Normalization Appendix

This appendix fixes a normalized, non-negotiable vocabulary for the Maley Corpus to prevent ambiguity, drift, or illicit reinterpretation of core terms. It specifies how key concepts are to be used, distinguished, and constrained under admissibility and standing conservation, and clarifies which common usages are explicitly disallowed. The document is strictly interpretive and non-operational: it introduces no procedures, definitions-by-construction, or methodological guidance. Its purpose is to eliminate semantic slippage as a source of apparent disagreement or false extension, ensuring that all closure claims are read with the same fixed linguistic commitments. By placing vocabulary normalization on record, the appendix supports maximal closure by removing language-based escape routes without expanding the technical content of the