Revise terminology and clarify concepts in presentation

Author: AshmanRoonz

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@@ -991,11 +991,11 @@ <h2>Introduction</h2>
 
         <p>Not because mystics are physicists or physicists are mystics. Because the structure is the structure. Reality has a shape. Different people, different eras, different methods — same shape.</p>
 
-        <p>The axiom isn't new. The axiom is what everyone keeps finding: <strong>parts are fractals of their wholes</strong>. Trinity structure, because that's the minimum for braiding. Nested infinitely, because there's no top and no bottom. 64 relationship modes, because 2³ × 2³ is how a part's trinity couples with its whole's trinity.</p>
+        <p>The axiom isn't new. The axiom is what everyone keeps finding: <strong>parts are fractals of their wholes</strong>. Triadic structure, because every whole has an inside, an outside, and the operation that relates them. Nested infinitely, because there's no top and no bottom. 64 relationship modes, because 2³ × 2³ is how a part's triad couples with its whole's triad.</p>
 
         <p>The Circumpunct Framework doesn't invent this. It notices that everyone else already found it — and asks why.</p>
 
-        <p>The answer: geometric necessity. The structure isn't preferred. It's required. You can't build a reality with memory and identity from fewer than three strands. You can't have parts without wholes. You can't have relationship without correspondence.</p>
+        <p>The answer: geometric necessity. The structure isn't preferred. It's required. You can't have an inside without an outside. You can't relate them without an operation. You can't have parts without wholes. You can't have relationship without correspondence.</p>
 
         <p>So the mystics found it through contemplation. The physicists found it through measurement. The sages found it through divination. The mathematicians found it through proof.</p>
 
@@ -1084,29 +1084,42 @@ <h1 class="section-title">The Derivation</h1>
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             <h2>What Mathematics Demands</h2>
 
-            <h3>Three Strands Required</h3>
-            <p>Two strands can only <strong>wind</strong> (abelian, commutative) or <strong>knot</strong> (trivial in 4D). For non-abelian braid topology B₃, three distinct strands are required. This is the Yang-Baxter equation—it cannot be satisfied with fewer than three.</p>
+            <h3>Two Operands, One Operator</h3>
+            <p>Every whole has a center (•) and a boundary (○). But center and boundary cannot touch directly — there must be something <em>between</em> them. That between is not a third thing of the same kind. It is the <strong>operation</strong> that relates them. Φ is the verb between two nouns.</p>
+
+            <p>This is confirmed by braid topology: two strands can only wind (abelian, commutative) or knot (trivial in 4D). For non-abelian structure B₃ — structure with history, memory, and identity — three distinct elements are required. The Yang-Baxter equation cannot be satisfied with fewer:</p>
 
             <div class="equation-box">
                 <div class="equation">σ₁ σ₂ σ₁ = σ₂ σ₁ σ₂</div>
                 <p class="equation-label">The Braid Relation</p>
             </div>
 
-            <p><strong>Consequence:</strong> Any structure capable of history, memory, and identity must be at minimum a trinity.</p>
+            <p><strong>Consequence:</strong> Any structure capable of relating an inside to an outside requires two operands and one operator — a triad.</p>
 
-            <h3>The Circumpunct Trinity</h3>
+            <h3>The Circumpunct</h3>
             <p>The irreducible whole-with-parts structure is:</p>
 
             <div class="equation-box">
-                <div class="equation">⊙ = • ⊗ Φ ⊗ ○</div>
-                <p class="equation-label">The Circumpunct</p>
+                <div class="equation">⊙ = • Φ ○</div>
+                <p class="equation-label">From within: center <em>through</em> boundary</p>
+            </div>
+
+            <p>Read it like arithmetic: dot <em>through</em> circle. Φ is the operator — the mediation — not a third component alongside the other two. Your soul, through your mind, expressed as your body.</p>
+
+            <p>But the same structure, seen from the whole that contains you:</p>
+
+            <div class="equation-box">
+                <div class="equation">⊙ = Φ(•, ○)</div>
+                <p class="equation-label">From outside: the field constitutes the part</p>
             </div>
 
+            <p>Both are the same equation. One is what it looks like to be inside a circumpunct. The other is what it looks like from the scale above — the field that holds you is the context that makes your center and boundary into a whole.</p>
+
             <div class="table-container">
                 <table>
                     <thead>
                         <tr>
-                            <th>Component</th>
+                            <th>Element</th>
                             <th>Symbol</th>
                             <th>Role</th>
                         </tr>
@@ -1115,23 +1128,23 @@ <h3>The Circumpunct Trinity</h3>
                         <tr>
                             <td>Center</td>
                             <td style="color: var(--gold-primary); font-size: 1.2rem;">•</td>
-                            <td>Aperture — where transformation occurs</td>
+                            <td>Operand — the aperture, where selection occurs</td>
                         </tr>
                         <tr>
                             <td>Field</td>
                             <td style="color: var(--blue-spirit); font-size: 1.2rem;">Φ</td>
-                            <td>Mediator — carries influence between center and boundary</td>
+                            <td>Operator — the mediation between center and boundary</td>
                         </tr>
                         <tr>
                             <td>Boundary</td>
-                            <td style="color: var(--violet-accent); font-size: 1.2rem;">â—‹</td>
-                            <td>Interface — separates interior from exterior</td>
+                            <td style="color: var(--violet-accent); font-size: 1.2rem;">○</td>
+                            <td>Operand — the interface, where interior meets exterior</td>
                         </tr>
                     </tbody>
                 </table>
             </div>
 
-            <p><strong>Geometric necessity:</strong> Center and boundary cannot touch directly. Field mediation is required.</p>
+            <p><strong>Geometric necessity:</strong> Center and boundary cannot touch directly. The field is not a third thing between them — it is the <em>operation</em> of relating them.</p>
 
             <h3>Nesting Is Mandatory</h3>
             <p>Parts are fractals of wholes. So any whole is itself a part of a larger whole. And any part contains smaller parts. There is no bottom (no smallest ⊙) and no top (no largest ⊙).</p>
@@ -1145,7 +1158,7 @@ <h3>Nesting Is Mandatory</h3>
             </div>
 
             <h3>The 64-State Space</h3>
-            <p>When a part couples with its whole—your ⊙ relating to the ⊙ that contains you—each has three components. Each component contributes one binary choice, yielding 2³ = 8 states per circumpunct. For part and whole coupled:</p>
+            <p>When a part couples with its whole—your ⊙ relating to the ⊙ that contains you—each has three elements (two operands and one operator). Each element contributes one binary choice, yielding 2³ = 8 states per circumpunct. For part and whole coupled:</p>
 
             <div class="equation-box">
                 <div class="equation">2⁶ = 2³ × 2³ = 64</div>
@@ -1269,7 +1282,7 @@ <h2>The Bridge Is the Axiom</h2>
             </div>
 
             <h3>For Science</h3>
-            <p>The axiom gives structure: Every system is a ⊙. Every ⊙ has three components. Every ⊙ nests. Every part-whole coupling has 64 states. Predict from this.</p>
+            <p>The axiom gives structure: Every system is a ⊙. Every ⊙ is two operands joined by one operator. Every ⊙ nests. Every part-whole coupling has 64 states. Predict from this.</p>
 
             <h3>For Spirituality</h3>
             <p>The axiom gives meaning: You ARE your whole, fractally expressed. Your purpose IS the whole's purpose, at your scale.</p>