Coherence
Coherence as the Structural Condition of Persistence
This page introduces coherence as the foundational concept within the Bellori Framework.
What is coherence?
Coherence is the structural condition that enables systems to persist across change.
It defines the preservation of relations between successive configurations and underlies tolerance, stability, and identity within the Bellori Framework.
Definition
Coherence is the preservation of structural relations across successive configurations, enabling structural dependence within a configuration chain.
How to understand it
Coherence determines which transformations can form a continuous sequence.
Only when structural relations are preserved can configurations remain part of the same system.
Tolerance is not independent, but derived from coherence and structurally constrained by it.
Structural relation
Coherence → Tolerance → Stability → Identity
- Coherence defines the relations
- Tolerance defines the domain of variation
- Stability describes persistence within that domain
- Identity reflects the recognition of that persistence
Implications
- Not all change produces a system
- Only structurally dependent transformations form sequences
- Stability is bounded, not absolute
- Identity depends on preserved coherence, not on isolated states
Within Bellori Framework
Within the Bellori Framework, coherence is not a secondary concept, but the primary structural condition from which tolerance, stability, and identity are derived.
Read the full paper:
→ Coherence as the Structural Condition of Persistence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19261022
The framework specifies identity not as a property of a state, but as a condition of preserved coherence across a sequence of configurations.
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