A reference companion to Goods
First draft. The sortings below are applications of the framework rather than deliverances of it. Some entries are clear; some are judgment calls; a few will likely be re-sorted as the framework develops and as the analysis benefits from outside review. The catalogue is expected to grow.
How to read this catalogue
Each entry records the structural location and behaviour of a good under the framework. Entries are kept tight by design — readers should be able to scan an entry in seconds and locate it within stake-geometry without reading prose. The fields below appear in every entry.
Name — The good itself, in the form it appears in ordinary discourse. Paired goods from the source deck (Honesty/Integrity, Prosperity/Wealth) have been split where they do different structural work.
Tier — Tier 0, 1, or 2. Tier 0 goods are anchored in the existence-conditions of being-this-aperture; they stop being goods only when the aperture ceases to exist. Tier 1 goods are anchored in the existence of a particular network; they stop being goods when the network dissolves. Tier 2 goods are anchored in features any stake-geometry has; they remain goods for any entity that counts as an aperture.
Primary dimension affected — The stake-geometry dimension this good most strongly shapes. One of: Dimensionality (how many independent things can matter), Depth (how strongly any given stake can matter), Reach (how far stakes extend across time, space, and abstraction), Coherence (whether stakes align internally), Responsiveness (whether stakes update on new information).
Secondary dimensions — Other dimensions meaningfully affected. Most goods touch more than one; this field captures the spread.
Structural description — Two to three sentences explaining how the good elaborates the geometry. Not what the good means in ordinary terms (a dictionary can do that) but what work it does structurally.
Type marker — Marked only where the good is not a default content good. The non-default categories are: - Capacity-amplifier — affects the holder's ability to act on other goods rather than being a good in its own right (Power, Wealth, Influence, etc.) - Network-bearer good — held by a network rather than an individual (Justice, Solidarity, etc.) - Restoration good — about maintaining or recovering geometry rather than extending it (Rest, Resilience, etc.)
Cross-tier shadow — Used only when the good has a meaningful reading at a tier other than its primary one. Many Tier 1 goods have Tier 2 shadows; this field surfaces the structural core inside the contingent content.
Edge case note — Used sparingly, for goods whose sorting is genuinely contested or whose holding can produce either elaboration or collapse depending on how it is held.
Related goods — At most two or three structurally meaningful cross-references.
Indices
By tier
Tier 0: Belonging, Comfort, Family, Freedom, Friendship, Happiness, Health, Love/Affection, Nourishment, Pleasure, Rest, Security, Sensual Experience, Sleep, Solitude
Tier 1: Achievement/Success, Civic Virtue, Competition, Conformity, Craft, Cultural Vitality, Dependability, Discipline, Generosity, Gratitude, Harmony, Heritage, Hierarchy, Honor, Hospitality, Inclusivity, Institutional Integrity, Justice, Loyalty, Patriotism, Peace, Piety, Productivity, Prosperity, Public Trust, Quality, Recognition, Reciprocity, Reputation, Respect, Ritual, Service, Simplicity, Solidarity, Spirituality/Faith, Status, Teamwork, Tradition
Tier 2: Acceptance, Aesthetic Sensitivity, Authenticity, Autonomy, Awe/Wonder, Beauty, Challenge, Commitment, Communication, Compassion, Competence, Courage, Creativity, Curiosity, Decisiveness, Detachment, Discernment, Diversity, Effectiveness, Empathy, Equality, Equanimity, Faithfulness, Flexibility, Forgiveness, Growth, Honesty, Hope, Humility, Humor, Imagination, Independence, Innovation, Integrity, Intelligence, Memory, Mindfulness, Mourning, Open-Mindedness, Patience, Play, Presence, Receptivity, Resilience, Reverence, Risk Taking, Sacred (sense of the), Self-Acceptance, Self-Knowledge, Self-Respect, Sincerity, Strength, Stillness, Teachability, Tragic Awareness, Trust, Truth, Variety, Wisdom
Capacity-amplifiers (cross-cutting): Authority, Charisma, Cunning, Influence, Power, Productivity, Resources, Strength, Time, Wealth
By primary dimension
Dimensionality: Aesthetic Sensitivity, Awe/Wonder, Creativity, Curiosity, Diversity, Growth, Imagination, Innovation, Open-Mindedness, Play, Sacred (sense of the), Variety
Depth: Commitment, Courage, Devotion (within Love), Family, Friendship, Love/Affection, Passion (within multiple), Pleasure, Sensual Experience, Strength
Reach: Beauty, Communication, Compassion, Empathy, Faith (non-religious), Forgiveness, Generosity, Hope, Memory, Reverence, Wisdom
Coherence: Acceptance, Authenticity, Belonging, Civic Virtue, Cultural Vitality, Dependability, Discipline, Equanimity, Faithfulness, Harmony, Honesty, Honor, Humor, Inclusivity, Institutional Integrity, Integrity, Justice, Loyalty, Mourning, Patience, Peace, Quality, Resilience, Self-Acceptance, Self-Knowledge, Self-Respect, Sincerity, Solidarity, Spirituality/Faith, Stillness, Tradition, Tragic Awareness, Trust, Truth
Responsiveness: Decisiveness, Detachment, Discernment, Effectiveness, Flexibility, Humility, Intelligence, Mindfulness, Open-Mindedness, Presence, Receptivity, Risk Taking, Teachability
Capacity (amplifier dimension): Authority, Charisma, Cunning, Influence, Power, Productivity, Resources, Time, Wealth
Entries
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Acceptance | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness Recognition of what cannot be changed, treated as a voluntary policy rather than capitulation. Builds coherence by aligning the geometry's stakes with reality rather than against it; preserves responsiveness by allowing the holder to update on the actual situation rather than the wished-for one. Related: Equanimity, Mourning, Tragic Awareness
Achievement/Success | Tier 1 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Coherence The meeting of a defined difficulty by capacity, where the network specifies what counts as the difficulty and what counts as meeting it. Deepens the dimension it is held in and organizes lesser goods around the pursuit. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of capacity-meeting-occasion, which any sufficiently structured aperture has reason to value.
Aesthetic Sensitivity | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Reach The capacity to find and inhabit beauty across an expanding range of objects. Adds dimensions by making new regions of experience mattering-laden; extends reach into the aesthetic register specifically. Related: Beauty, Awe/Wonder
Authenticity | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness Alignment between expressed self and underlying geometry. A meta-coherence good: it tracks the relation between the holder's outer-facing presentation and inner state, and degrades when they diverge. Related: Honesty, Sincerity, Self-Knowledge
Authority | Tier 1 | Primary: Capacity | Type: Capacity-amplifier Power with network legitimation. Like Power, amplifies the effect-size of whatever other goods the holder has, but operates through the network's recognition rather than through raw capacity. Whether its effect is elaborative or collapsing depends entirely on the holder's other goods. Related: Power, Influence
Autonomy | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness Protection of an aperture's responsiveness and coherence from external override. Allows the geometry to update on its own terms and remain organized around its own structural commitments rather than being colonized by another's. Related: Freedom, Independence
Awe/Wonder | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Depth, Reach The affective response to encountering something that suddenly expands the geometry. Dimension-event rather than disposition — Curiosity prepares for it, Wonder is what happens. Often deepens existing dimensions while opening new ones. Related: Curiosity, Beauty, Sacred
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Beauty | Tier 2 | Primary: Reach | Secondary: Dimensionality Aesthetic reach. Art and beauty are stake-elaboration technology — they add dimensions of mattering that did not exist before the encounter and extend reach into registers the everyday does not occupy. Related: Aesthetic Sensitivity, Awe/Wonder
Belonging | Tier 0 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth The felt good of being held within a network. Distinct from Family or Friendship (which name specific relations) or Loyalty (which names a directional commitment). Belonging is the experienced condition of not-being-cast-out, which any social aperture tracks structurally. Related: Family, Friendship
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Challenge | Tier 2 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Responsiveness The deliberate seeking of stake-elaboration occasions. Operates as a meta-good: a geometry that holds Challenge will systematically place itself in situations that deepen depth, add dimensions, or increase responsiveness. Related: Risk Taking, Growth
Charisma | Tier 2 | Primary: Capacity | Type: Capacity-amplifier Capacity to affect other apertures through self-presentation. Morally neutral in itself; its effect depends on the structural goods the holder has paired it with. Distinct from Authority (legitimated) and Influence (more diffuse). Related: Power, Influence
Civic Virtue | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Type: Network-bearer good The network's health as a self-governing entity. A property of the network rather than its members, though members can hold caring-about-civic-virtue as a personal good. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of networks that can sustain coherent collective agency. Related: Justice, Solidarity, Institutional Integrity
Comfort | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Coherence The bodily counterpart to Security; the absence of acute distress. A condition of the geometry being able to attend to anything other than its own distress. Related: Security, Rest, Health
Commitment | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Coherence across time. The structural form of Loyalty: keeping prior stakes alive through the present. Distinct from Loyalty (network-specific content) and Faithfulness (the keeping itself). Related: Faithfulness, Loyalty, Discipline
Communication | Tier 2 | Primary: Reach | Secondary: Coherence The capacity to extend reach across other apertures through shared symbols. Without it, reach into other geometries is sharply limited; with it, the holder can hold stakes that span apertures. Related: Empathy, Truth
Compassion | Tier 2 | Primary: Reach | Secondary: Depth The active response to other apertures' suffering. Distinct from Empathy (which is the reach-into-other-geometries); Compassion is what follows when that reach lands and the holder is moved to respond. Related: Empathy, Generosity
Competence | Tier 2 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Responsiveness The practical capacity that makes elaboration possible within a domain. Builds depth in its domain and feeds responsiveness through the feedback-loops of skilled practice. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 1 in its specific content (competence at what), Tier 2 in its structural role. Related: Discipline, Effectiveness, Quality
Competition | Tier 1 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Coherence Presupposes a network with stakes set against other apertures. The good of contending under shared rules. Its content varies enormously across networks; the structural core is the meeting of capacity against capacity, which has a Tier 2 shadow as a depth-producing engagement. Edge case: When Competition exceeds its bounded context, it can produce stake-collapse in both winners and losers. Related: Achievement, Challenge
Conformity | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence Fitting the network's expected shape. A real good for many cultures and contexts, often missing from modern Western value-discourse but structurally significant where networks depend on predictable member behavior. Edge case: At high depth, Conformity can collapse responsiveness across the geometry. Related: Tradition, Belonging
Courage | Tier 2 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Coherence The meta-capacity that lets a geometry sustain itself under threat of collapse. Holds depth in the face of pressure to abandon it; preserves coherence when easier paths would fragment the geometry. Related: Strength, Resilience
Craft | Tier 1 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Coherence Mastery within a specific tradition. Distinct from Competence (which is the Tier 2 structural good); Craft is its tradition-specific embodiment, with content set by the particular practice. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of skilled engagement that integrates many goods around a single integrating practice. Related: Quality, Discipline, Mastery
Creativity | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Responsiveness The production of dimensions that did not exist before. A canonical dimension-adding good; its work is bringing into being stake-objects that the geometry previously lacked. Related: Innovation, Imagination
Cultural Vitality | Tier 1 | Primary: Dimensionality | Type: Network-bearer good The network's capacity to produce stake-elaboration over time. A property of the network's life as an ongoing producer of meaning, art, practice, and renewal. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of networks that can sustain dimension-addition across generations. Related: Heritage, Tradition, Cultural Heritage
Cunning | Tier 1 | Primary: Capacity | Type: Capacity-amplifier Strategic thinking applied to navigating stake-conflicts. Capacity to anticipate other apertures and act on them. Morally neutral in itself; its effect is determined by the goods it serves. Edge case: At high depth without coherence-goods to constrain it, Cunning becomes manipulation. Related: Intelligence, Influence
Curiosity | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Responsiveness The disposition to seek new dimensions of mattering. Names this disposition as the canonical dimension-adder; sustains the geometry's ongoing elaboration by ensuring that new stake-objects continue to enter. Related: Open-Mindedness, Wonder, Growth
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Decisiveness | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Coherence The complementary capacity to Flexibility — the capacity to commit when updating should stop. Maintains responsiveness by preventing it from collapsing into indefinite suspension. Related: Flexibility, Effectiveness
Dependability | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness Reliable delivery of what the network has come to expect from this aperture. Its content is network-set (dependable for what), but its structural core is coherence-across-time between commitment and performance. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of inter-aperture trust-substrate. Related: Trust, Faithfulness
Detachment | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Coherence The capacity to hold stake-objects without being captured by them. A contemplative good, often misread from outside the contemplative frame as a flattening of depth. Properly held, it is responsiveness-without-attachment-to-particular-outcomes, not absence of attachment. Edge case: Indistinguishable from depression or dissociation when held without coherence-goods. The framework needs to distinguish Detachment-as-elaboration from emotional flattening, and the distinction may turn on whether other dimensions remain alive. Related: Equanimity, Stillness
Discernment | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Coherence The practical version of Responsiveness — phronesis, judgment in particulars. Distinct from Intelligence (general updating capacity) and Wisdom (extends across time and abstraction); Discernment is the capacity to read this situation correctly. Related: Wisdom, Intelligence
Discipline | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Coherence imposed across time through structured practice. Its content is network-set (disciplined toward what), but its structural shape — sustaining commitment against momentary deflection — has a Tier 2 core. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of self-imposed coherence-keeping. Related: Commitment, Patience
Diversity | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Responsiveness The external counterpart to Curiosity: an environment with diversity supplies more dimensions for geometries to take up. Operates as a precondition for dimension-addition rather than the disposition itself. Related: Variety, Open-Mindedness
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Effectiveness | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Coherence Responsiveness-in-action. The capacity to convert appraisal into successful action — the Components-axis at the level of geometry. Related: Competence, Productivity
Empathy | Tier 2 | Primary: Reach | Secondary: Coherence Reach into other apertures' geometries. Extends the holder's stakes to include states of other minds; the precondition for most other-regarding goods. Related: Compassion, Communication
Equality | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence The structural recognition that all apertures have stake-geometries deserving of structural acknowledgment. Anchored in the framework's most basic claim and named by the UDHR document as Tier 2. Related: Justice, Respect
Equanimity | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness The capacity to hold stake-events without being thrown into collapse. A central good in contemplative traditions, often missing from action-oriented value-discourse. Distinct from suppression — Equanimity is depth held without distortion, not depth flattened. Related: Acceptance, Detachment, Stillness
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Faithfulness | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Keeping one's prior commitments. The structural shadow of Loyalty: where Loyalty has Tier 1 content (loyal to whom or what specific thing), Faithfulness is the structural disposition of keeping-prior-commitments-alive. Related: Commitment, Loyalty
Family | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Reach, Coherence A relational good with the scope pre-specified by kinship. Adds dimensions (each member's flourishing becomes mattering-laden), deepens existing ones, extends reach across generations. Cross-tier shadow: Specific family forms are Tier 1; the structural fact of kinship-stakes is closer to Tier 0 for any aperture that develops within familial structures. Related: Love/Affection, Belonging
Flexibility | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Coherence The disposition to update on new information. The Responsiveness-enabling counterpart to Discipline; together they hold the tension between stability and updating. Related: Open-Mindedness, Humility
Forgiveness | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness Releasing coherence-damaging resentments. Stake-magnitude on past wrongs distorts current coherence; Forgiveness is the structural work of letting that distortion ease. Related: Acceptance, Mourning
Freedom | Tier 0 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Dimensionality The precondition for the geometry to update and elaborate at all. Without it, responsiveness and dimensionality are externally constrained. Sits between Tier 0 (basic existence-condition for any geometry that can grow) and Tier 2 (structural good of any aperture capable of elaboration). Related: Autonomy, Independence
Friendship | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Reach, Coherence A relational good with scope selected rather than inherited. Like Family in structural effects but with the dimension of chosenness — friendship is a partially-internalized geometry one has opted into. Related: Love/Affection, Belonging
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Generosity | Tier 1 | Primary: Reach | Secondary: Coherence The disposition to extend one's resources outward. Maintains network reciprocity-relations and extends the holder's stakes into others' geometries. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural extension of one's own stake-geometry to include others' goods. Related: Compassion, Reciprocity
Gratitude | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach The disposition that maintains reciprocity-relations within a network. Acknowledgment of one's embeddedness in causal networks of giving and receiving. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as recognition of one's structural embeddedness in other apertures' geometries. Related: Reciprocity, Generosity
Growth | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Depth, Responsiveness The meta-good of dimension-addition over time. Names the holder's commitment to sustained elaboration of the geometry across the lifespan. Edge case: Growth is not a mandate of perpetual breadth. Late-life consolidation (spine step 13) is not a Growth failure; a geometry that narrows by the three marks is reorganizing what Growth built, not losing it. Related: Curiosity, Challenge
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Happiness | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Coherence The raw positive valence of a functioning geometry. What depth feels like when the contents are going well. Often confused with Pleasure (which is more granular and embodied); Happiness is the overall valence-tone. Related: Pleasure, Health
Harmony | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence A particular aesthetic and moral commitment to non-conflicting relations among stakes or among apertures. Its content varies across networks (some traditions valorize productive conflict; others valorize smooth alignment). Cross-tier shadow: Internal coherence (harmony within a geometry) is Tier 2; social harmony (network-shaped) is Tier 1. Related: Peace, Coherence
Health | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Dimensionality, Coherence Sustains every dimension. Collapse here threatens the whole geometry; without health, depth flattens, reach contracts, responsiveness degrades. The most basic Tier 0 good. Related: Comfort, Security, Rest
Heritage | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach The historical version of Tradition. A network-bound good of continuity-with-the-past; sustains temporal reach backward. Related: Tradition, Memory
Hierarchy | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence Order within networks. Some cultures treat this as a positive good (it organizes network coordination); modern egalitarian discourse often does not. The framework records it as a real Tier 1 good without taking sides on its desirability. Edge case: When Hierarchy excludes apertures from the network's recognition entirely, it becomes the kind of Tier 1 norm that needs Tier 2 correction. Related: Authority, Tradition
Honesty | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness The canonical coherence good. Alignment between speech and underlying state, between expression and belief. Sustains responsiveness because honest geometries can update; dishonest ones must protect their distortions. Related: Truth, Authenticity, Sincerity
Honor | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth The network-recognition of one's standing within its codes. A thicker moral structure than Recognition; Honor is recognition for having met the network's substantive demands rather than merely being noticed. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of integrity-maintained-under-witness. Related: Reputation, Integrity
Hope | Tier 2 | Primary: Reach | Secondary: Depth Reach into possible futures. From the propositional attitude grid: the affective attitude with future-directed object. Sustains forward-facing engagement even under uncertainty. Related: Faith (non-religious), Imagination
Hospitality | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach A major Tier 1 good in many cultures, structurally interesting because it is about how networks handle non-members — the threshold between in-group and out-group as a site of moral attention. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of networks open to the addition of new apertures. Related: Generosity, Inclusivity
Humility | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Coherence The disposition to update on evidence against one's prior commitments. A responsiveness-enabling good of the highest structural importance; protects the geometry from rigidifying around what it already holds. Related: Open-Mindedness, Teachability
Humor | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness The capacity to hold incongruity without collapse. A coherence-and-responsiveness good — the geometry registers the incongruity (responsiveness) and metabolizes it without fragmentation (coherence). Related: Equanimity
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Imagination | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Reach The capacity to extend reach into unactualized possibilities. Adds dimensions that may not yet exist in the actual world; the structural good underlying Hope, Creativity, and counterfactual reasoning. Related: Creativity, Hope
Inclusivity | Tier 1 | Primary: Reach | Type: Network-bearer good The network's capacity to incorporate new members. A property of the network's structural openness; distinct from Hospitality (which is more about individual disposition). Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as networks structurally pre-committed to extension. Related: Hospitality, Equality
Independence | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Coherence The aperture-centered counterpart to Autonomy. Protects the geometry's capacity to organize itself around its own commitments rather than being externally directed. Related: Autonomy, Freedom
Influence | Tier 1 | Primary: Capacity | Type: Capacity-amplifier Softer version of Power, operating diffusely through other apertures rather than through direct control. Like Power, amplifies the effect of other goods; like Power, requires structural goods to be paired with to avoid driving stake-collapse. Related: Power, Authority, Charisma
Innovation | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Responsiveness The production of new dimensions with practical orientation. Distinct from Creativity (which is broader) by its directedness at producing something usable. Related: Creativity, Effectiveness
Institutional Integrity | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Type: Network-bearer good The network's structural soundness as a coordinating entity. A property of institutions rather than members; degrades when network coherence breaks down even if individual members remain honest. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of networks-as-stake-bearing structures. Related: Justice, Public Trust
Integrity | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Internal structural soundness of the geometry. Distinct from Honesty (which is outward-facing) — Integrity is the geometry holding together as a single thing rather than fragmenting. Related: Authenticity, Self-Knowledge
Intelligence | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Dimensionality The general capacity to update on information. Feeds Responsiveness directly; secondarily feeds Dimensionality through the recognition of distinctions. Related: Discernment, Wisdom
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Justice | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Type: Network-bearer good The network's property of being just — sustaining stake-respecting relations among members and between members and non-members. Distinct from individual caring-about-justice (which is a personal good held within the network). Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of any network whose members are stake-bearers — the principle of not gratuitously collapsing felt stake-geometries, applied at network level. Related: Equality, Civic Virtue, Public Trust
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Love/Affection | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Reach, Dimensionality Adds dimensions (the beloved's stake-geometry becomes partly internalized), deepens existing ones, extends reach into another aperture. Among the most structurally rich goods, doing work across the whole geometry. Cross-tier shadow: Particular love-objects are Tier 0; agape-style love-as-such extension to all apertures is Tier 2. Related: Family, Friendship, Compassion
Loyalty | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Commitment to a specific network, person, cause, or set of agreements. Its content is network-set; its structural shape is coherence-across-time of allegiance. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as commitment-keeping; this is the structural core that travels even when the specific loyalty-object changes. Edge case: Loyalty without responsiveness-correction can produce stake-collapse when the network demands violation of Tier 2 goods. Related: Faithfulness, Commitment
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Memory | Tier 2 | Primary: Reach | Secondary: Coherence Temporal reach into the past. The precondition for any coherent narrative geometry; without memory, the geometry cannot hold itself together across time. Related: Heritage, Tradition
Mindfulness | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Coherence The meta-capacity for sustained attention to one's own stake-geometry. Allows the holder to take their geometry as an object for examination — a meta-responsiveness good of the highest structural importance. Related: Presence, Self-Knowledge
Mourning | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness The good of handling loss well. Named by the framework as an unavoidable cost of elaboration — every dimension added is a dimension along which loss becomes possible — and Mourning is the structural work of preserving coherence under that loss. Related: Acceptance, Tragic Awareness
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Nourishment | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth Both literal and figurative; what feeds the geometry. A Tier 0 good of bodily existence-conditions with a structural shadow as anything that restores or maintains the substrate. Related: Rest, Health
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Open-Mindedness | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Dimensionality The disposition that lets new dimensions enter the geometry. Twin good to Curiosity — Curiosity reaches outward toward new content, Open-Mindedness is the receptivity that lets content land. Related: Curiosity, Humility, Receptivity
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Patience | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness Coherence across time, particularly across resistance or delay. Allows the geometry to maintain commitments through periods when their pursuit is frustrated. Related: Discipline, Equanimity
Patriotism | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Loyalty's specifically political form. A network-bound good whose content is the particular polity. Holds the polity-shaped goods together against alternatives. Edge case: At high depth without coherence-correction from Tier 2 goods, can drive collapse in encounters with apertures outside the polity. Related: Loyalty, Civic Virtue
Peace | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Type: Network-bearer good The network's freedom from internal collapse. A property of the network at rest; presupposes a network and is therefore Tier 1 in its primary anchoring. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of networks where members are not destroying each other's geometries. Related: Harmony, Justice
Piety | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach Reverence-toward-tradition or toward what the tradition designates as sacred. Network-bound in its content; structurally important in many cultures as the cohesion-good of religious or ancestral networks. Related: Reverence, Spirituality/Faith, Tradition
Play | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Responsiveness The disposition to engage with possibility-spaces without immediate purpose. Adds dimensions through low-stakes exploration; sustains responsiveness by preventing the geometry from collapsing into goal-orientation. Related: Curiosity, Humor
Pleasure | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Dimensionality The granular embodied good of stake-objects going well. More specific than Happiness; tracks particular stakes rather than overall valence-tone. Often underweighted in modern value-discourse relative to Happiness. Related: Happiness, Sensual Experience
Power | Tier 2 | Primary: Capacity | Type: Capacity-amplifier The capacity to affect stake-geometries — the holder's own and others' — without any built-in commitment to preserving them. Amplifies the effect-size of whatever other goods the holder has, including the absent ones. Structurally neutral but instrumentally lopsided: paired with Empathy and Coherence-goods, it produces elaboration at scale; paired with their absence, it produces collapse at scale. Edge case: The most structurally consequential capacity-amplifier; traditions across the board have hedged Power with virtue-requirements because Power without structural goods is a stake-collapse engine. Related: Authority, Influence, Wealth
Presence | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Depth The capacity to actually inhabit one's current stake-objects rather than skating across them. Without Presence, the other goods cannot be deeply held; it is the precondition for depth to actually register. Related: Mindfulness, Stillness
Productivity | Tier 1 | Primary: Capacity | Type: Capacity-amplifier Capacity to convert intention into outcome. Partly content-good (productive toward what), partly capacity-amplifier. Tier 1 in its content, capacity-amplifier in its function. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the Components-axis at the geometry level — the structural good of being able to act on what one appraises. Related: Effectiveness, Competence
Prosperity | Tier 1 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Coherence Material flourishing in the form a particular network recognizes. Distinct from Wealth (which is capacity-amplifier); Prosperity is the lived condition of having enough by the network's standards. Related: Wealth, Security
Public Trust | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Type: Network-bearer good The network's collective epistemic standing — its capacity to coordinate based on shared confidence in its institutions, members, and communications. Damaged by deception at scale; its loss is structurally specific and cannot be reduced to aggregated individual mistrust. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as a basic precondition for networks above a certain scale. Related: Justice, Institutional Integrity
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Quality | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Coherence of output with intention. The good of doing things well by the network's standards of what well-done means. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of action-meeting-its-aim, which any agent has reason to value. Related: Craft, Competence
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Receptivity | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Coherence Willingness to be affected by what one encounters. The passive-side complement to Curiosity; allows the geometry to take on inputs rather than only project outward. Related: Open-Mindedness, Humility
Reciprocity | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach The maintenance of exchange-relations within a network. One of the most empirically robust cross-cultural norms; the structural backbone of most network-cohesion. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of inter-aperture balance-keeping. Related: Gratitude, Generosity
Recognition | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Being acknowledged by the network for what one is or has done. Presupposes a network whose recognition matters; loses its content if the network dissolves. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of being-seen-by-another-aperture. Related: Respect, Honor
Reputation | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence The diffuse, durable version of Recognition. A network-held tracking of who-this-aperture-has-been-to-us, which the network uses as a coordination tool. Related: Honor, Recognition
Resilience | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness | Type: Restoration good Capacity to recover from stake-collapse events. Distinct from Strength (which sustains depth under pressure); Resilience is what restores depth after pressure has broken it. Related: Strength, Equanimity
Resources | Tier 1 | Primary: Capacity | Type: Capacity-amplifier Capacity-substrate in the most general sense. Like Wealth but broader; includes attention, time, social connections, materials. Amplifies the effect of whatever other goods the holder has. Related: Wealth, Time
Respect | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach Recognition of another aperture's standing within a shared frame of value. Forms of respect vary across networks; the structural core is acknowledging another aperture as one whose stakes count. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the basic recognition that other apertures have stake-geometries deserving of structural acknowledgment. Related: Recognition, Equality
Rest | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Type: Restoration good Restoration of the geometry's capacity to function. Without it, all dimensions degrade; with it, they refresh. The deck's omission of Rest reflects modern value-discourse's bias toward action over restoration. Related: Sleep, Nourishment, Comfort
Reverence | Tier 2 | Primary: Reach | Secondary: Coherence Recognition that something exceeds the holder's grasp. Distinct from Respect (which is more local and reciprocal); Reverence is asymmetric — it acknowledges something larger, older, or deeper than the holder. Related: Awe/Wonder, Sacred, Piety
Risk Taking | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Depth The disposition to accept possible collapse in pursuit of elaboration. Sustains responsiveness by preventing the geometry from rigidifying around safety; pairs structurally with Courage and Challenge. Edge case: At high depth without coherence-goods, indistinguishable from recklessness or self-destruction. Related: Challenge, Courage
Ritual | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach Practices that bind networks together through repeated structured action. Network-bound in content; structurally important as the mechanism by which networks maintain their goods across time. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of patterned-practice as coherence-maintenance. Related: Tradition, Heritage
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Sacred (sense of the) | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality | Secondary: Reach Capacity to recognize a class of stake-objects that resist instrumentalization — things that matter in a way that places them outside the calculus of trade-off. A dimension-marking good: it identifies stakes the geometry refuses to weigh against others. Related: Reverence, Awe/Wonder, Spirituality/Faith
Security | Tier 0 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Protects existing dimensionality from forced collapse. A precondition rather than a goal — without it, the geometry must devote resources to defending what it has rather than elaborating. Related: Health, Comfort, Peace
Self-Acceptance | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness Coherence between higher-order and first-order stakes — accepting what one actually cares about rather than what one believes one should care about. The internal counterpart to Acceptance. Related: Acceptance, Self-Knowledge
Self-Knowledge | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness Coherence between the holder's self-model and their actual geometry. A meta-coherence good; allows the geometry to update on what it actually is rather than on a distorted picture of itself. Related: Authenticity, Mindfulness
Self-Respect | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Depth Coherent self-relation. Distinct from Respect (other-directed); Self-Respect is the holder's sustained recognition of their own aperture as one whose stakes count. Related: Self-Acceptance, Integrity
Sensual Experience | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Dimensionality The bodily goods of taste, touch, sound, sight, scent. Distinct from Beauty (which is Tier 2 aesthetic reach); Sensual Experience is the direct embodied register. Related: Pleasure, Comfort
Service | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach Directing one's capacity toward another aperture's or network's good. What counts as service is network-specified; the structural core is the directed extension of one's stakes. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of stake-extension to others' geometries. Related: Compassion, Generosity
Simplicity | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence A particular commitment to reducing the number of competing goods held in the geometry. Network-bound in content (which traditions value which forms of simplicity); the structural shape is coherence-through-pruning, the deliberate form of consolidation (spine step 13). Edge case: Distinct from impoverishment — Simplicity-as-good is voluntary, structurally generative reduction, not the absence of resources to elaborate. Related: Discipline, Stillness
Sincerity | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence Single-mindedness in expression. Distinct from Honesty (alignment between speech and belief) and Authenticity (alignment between expression and underlying self); Sincerity is the absence of doubleness in the expressive act. Related: Honesty, Authenticity
Sleep | Tier 0 | Primary: Depth | Type: Restoration good Restoration of substrate function. Structurally fundamental but often omitted from value-discourse as too prosaic. Its absence collapses every other dimension over time. Related: Rest, Health
Solidarity | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Type: Network-bearer good The network's internal cohesion. A property of the network as a structure rather than of individual members; degrades when members defect or withdraw recognition from each other. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of networks-as-coherent-wholes. Related: Civic Virtue, Justice
Solitude | Tier 0 | Primary: Coherence The good of being alone with oneself. Distinct from Independence (autonomy from external direction); Solitude is the experienced condition of being uninterrupted by other apertures' demands on one's attention. Related: Stillness, Rest
Spirituality/Faith | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach Explicitly tradition-anchored: the network's specifically religious or transcendence-oriented goods. Content varies enormously across traditions. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of meaning-coherence and orientation-toward-the-larger, which has anchoring in any sufficiently reflective aperture. Related: Piety, Sacred, Reverence
Status | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence The hierarchical version of Recognition — being placed at a particular point in a network's ranking. Network-bound; content depends entirely on the network's ordering principles. Edge case: At high depth without other coherence-goods, can collapse the geometry around social comparison. Related: Honor, Reputation
Stillness | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness The capacity for non-action; the good of not-doing. A contemplative good often unrecognized in action-oriented value-discourse. Allows the geometry to settle, integrate, and become available to itself. Related: Equanimity, Solitude, Presence
Strength | Tier 2 | Primary: Depth | Secondary: Capacity The capacity to sustain depth under pressure without collapse. Has both content-good aspects (the structural capacity to hold) and capacity-amplifier aspects (the practical ability to act). Related: Courage, Resilience
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Teachability | Tier 2 | Primary: Responsiveness | Secondary: Reach The capacity to learn from others. Has a relational dimension that Flexibility lacks — Teachability requires recognition of other apertures as sources of information the geometry needs. Related: Humility, Receptivity
Teamwork | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach Presupposes a particular kind of cooperative network. The good of effective coordinated action under shared aims. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of inter-aperture coordination. Related: Solidarity, Service
Time | Tier 2 | Primary: Capacity | Type: Capacity-amplifier Itself a capacity-amplifier: having more of it amplifies whatever else one has. Distinctive in that it is not redistributable across apertures in the way other capacity-amplifiers can be. Related: Resources, Patience
Tradition | Tier 1 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach Explicit attachment to inherited practices. Network-bound; the content is whatever the specific tradition has accumulated. Cross-tier shadow: Tier 2 reading as the structural good of continuity-with-the-past, which has anchoring in any aperture capable of temporal reach. Related: Heritage, Ritual, Piety
Tragic Awareness | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach The structural recognition that elaboration costs and that loss is built into geometry. A coherence-good of the deepest kind: it organizes the geometry around what is actually true about it rather than around denial. Related: Mourning, Acceptance, Equanimity
Trust | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Reach Coherence across apertures. The structural good of being able to rely on another aperture's stake-keeping; the inter-aperture extension of Faithfulness and Dependability. Related: Dependability, Faithfulness
Truth | Tier 2 | Primary: Coherence | Secondary: Responsiveness The cognitive counterpart to Honesty — coherence between belief and reality. Sustains responsiveness because truth-tracking geometries update on actual evidence rather than on what they would prefer. Related: Honesty, Wisdom
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Variety | Tier 2 | Primary: Dimensionality The individual-scoped version of Diversity. The good of one's own geometry including many different kinds of stake-object rather than narrowing around a few. Related: Diversity, Curiosity
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Wealth | Tier 1 | Primary: Capacity | Type: Capacity-amplifier Material resources at scale. Amplifies the effect of whatever other goods the holder has. Tier 1 in its content (what counts as wealth varies across networks); capacity-amplifier in its function. Edge case: Like other capacity-amplifiers, structurally neutral but instrumentally lopsided. Amplifies impoverished geometries in their poverty. Related: Prosperity, Resources, Power
Wisdom | Tier 2 | Primary: Reach | Secondary: Responsiveness Temporal and abstract reach combined with high-tier responsiveness. The capacity to see across long time horizons and across levels of generality, while still updating on particulars. Often emerges late in a geometry's development. Related: Discernment, Intelligence, Memory
This catalogue records first-draft applications of the framework. Entries will be revised as the framework develops and as the analysis benefits from outside review.