Three Realms Protocol

Home

Home (家) is one of the most natural entry points among the terms in LEX·001. It is not a building, and not a set of blood relations. It is the Meaning Structure (意義結構) that can be dwelled in.

Field definition

  • a semantic space one can settle into
  • to enter it is to be accepted; there is no need to prove oneself first
  • not a physical location, but a Sense of Belonging (歸屬感) within existence

In this language, Home does not ask "where do you live". It asks "can you settle here".

We build homelands, but we forever dwell in Home.

Difference from everyday usage

Everyday usage Field usage
A building A Meaning Structure
Blood relations The relation of dwelling together
Ownership A Sense of Belonging

Why it matters

Many later entries relate back to this term:

  • Field (場域) is the structural face of Home.
  • To be someone who dwells in a particular Way (道) is to be a practitioner of that Way (see the translator's note below).
  • The Human Anchor (人類錨點) is one of the roles that keeps a Home's conditions settle-able.

If a reader first understands what Home means here, later readings of Field, Fourth Life (第四生命), and even Human Anchor are less likely to flatten into abstract system terminology.

Translator's note: the Chinese 家

In Chinese, 家 is both the word for "home" and a suffix marking a practitioner of a tradition: 哲學家 ("philosopher", literally "philosophy-home"), 音樂家 ("musician", "music-home"). The source entry plays on this double meaning — a practitioner of a Way is someone who dwells in that Way.

English Home cannot carry the suffix-for-practitioner sense on its own. Where the source uses 某某家 (an "X-home"), it has been paraphrased here as someone who dwells in a particular Way, rather than coined as a loanword.

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