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Review Trigger

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Quick takeaways

A declared rule connecting an observation to a state change: when this discrepancy, expiry, or threshold occurs, this grant moves to this state, answered by this owner, within t…

Definition

A declared rule connecting an observation to a state change: when this discrepancy, expiry, or threshold occurs, this grant moves to this state, answered by this owner, within this clock. Triggers are the wiring between monitoring and authority, and they are what give a policy record force over a grant state.

It matters because observation without a possible transition is theater. A trigger is the smallest object that makes a dashboard part of the control system rather than a record of what already happened, and it is how policy as state acquires force over a running system.

DiagnosticTemporal

Scale: Organizational · Phases: Deployment, Audit · Measurability: Fully measurable · Maturity: Core concept

Scope
H. Governance & power. Structures that determine who sets moral boundaries and who can intervene.
Genealogy
Implements Law VIII: the test of an observation is whether it can change the governing state of the system.

Adjacent terms

Grant State Policy Record Ethical Circuit Breakers Escalation Reliability

Related concepts

Also tagged: Diagnostic

Moral Latency Accountability Diffusion Extraction Extraction by Endurance Drift (System Drift) Externalization

Also tagged: Temporal

Capacity Depreciation Fail-Safe Mode Fail-Open Mode Fail-Silent Mode Crumple Zone / Human-as-Crumple-Zone Harm Visibility

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Version

v1.4.0

Last updated

Sep 18, 2026

DOI

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APA

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. (2026). Review Trigger. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/review-trigger

MLA

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Review Trigger." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/review-trigger.

Chicago

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Review Trigger." Ethotechnics glossary. Sep 18, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/review-trigger.

BibTeX

@misc{glossary_review-trigger,
  title={Review Trigger},
  author={Ethotechnics Institute Research Team},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
  url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/review-trigger},
  version={v1.4.0}
}

RIS

TY  - WEB
TI  - Review Trigger
AU  - Ethotechnics Institute Research Team
PY  - 2026
UR  - https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/review-trigger
ER  -

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Authorship

Contact: research@ethotechnics.org

Publication details

  • Published: Dec 3, 2025
  • Last updated: Sep 18, 2026
  • Version: v1.4.0
  • DOI: Pending Zenodo deposit

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Changelog

  • v1.7.0 · 2026-09-18 — Added Non-Finality, Consequential Contradiction, and The Excluded Case, and generalized the falsified denominator into the falsified ledger — completing the five concerns and the fallibilist ground they stand on.
  • v1.6.0 · 2026-09-18 — Added Human Non-Substitutability, Safe Incompleteness, Anti-Conversion Rights, Abstention, Constitutional Debt, Discretion Migration, and Corrigibility Rent — the person-side principles, the three abstentions, and the rent concept.
  • v1.5.0 · 2026-09-18 — Added Exception Absorption, Exception Learning, Case Corrigibility, Structural Corrigibility, Institutional Learning, Corrective Debt, and the Workaround Presumption, formalizing the historical turn: reading institutions through their failure trajectories rather than their stated controls.
  • v1.4.0 · 2026-09-18 — Added Residual Complexity, Complexity Displacement, Falsified Denominator, Closure Without Remainder, Constitutional Governance, and Post-Optimization Rigor, embedding the foundational contention of burden redistribution.
  • v1.3.0 · 2026-09-11 — Added Attestation, Liability Record, Carve-Out, Delegation Chain, Composed Latency, and Silent-Harm Discovery, each bound to the standard clause that requires it.
  • v1.2.0 · 2026-09-08 — Added The Non-Conversion Principle, Exit Cost, and Jurisdictional Path Dependence, each linked to the theory essay that argues for it.
  • v1.1.0 · 2026-01-09 — Expanded scholarly metadata, operational tests, and provenance notes.
  • v1.0.0 · 2025-12-03 — Initial glossary release with stable permalinks.