Meaning as Actionable Semantic Quotient: Policy-Preserving Compression, Semantic Deficit, and False Meaning under Finite Capacity

Yining Wu · 2026-05-18

Meaning paper in the agency-semantics spine. Treats meaning as FDS-meaning: an actionable semantic quotient that preserves downstream use under finite capacity. A representation is FDS-meaningful only relative to a specified boundary, task family, context family, policy or verification target, horizon, loss function, and resource budget. Introduces semantic quotient maps, reference-policy provenance, semantic preservation vectors, maintained semantic load, semantic capacity deficit, false compression, unsupported completion, shared quotient alignment, semantic synchronization load, meaning recovery, and invariant semantic quotient candidates. Includes Gricean pragmatics reinterpretation and hallucination mitigation interface.

@misc{wu2026fdsm3,
  author = {Yining Wu},
  title = {Meaning as Actionable Semantic Quotient: Policy-Preserving Compression, Semantic Deficit, and False Meaning under Finite Capacity},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20263294},
}