# Conceptual Duplication Detection

> Derive a name-independent semantic signature for each behavior (intent, input-to-output shape, effects), cluster behaviors by meaning rather than identifier, and surface same-meaning/different-name clusters that only the semantic lens can detect.

Record: `algorithms:conceptual-duplication-detection`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-conceptual-duplication-detection
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/conceptual-duplication-detection/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Anomaly Outlier Detection](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/anomaly-outlier-detection.md) and before [Fractal Scale Duplication](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/fractal-scale-duplication.md).

## Domain

- [Pattern distillation](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/pattern-distillation.md)

## Stage

- [see](https://banes-lab.com/records/stage/see.md)

## Axis

- [analysis](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/axis-analysis.md)

## Tier

- [process](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-process.md)

## Grounds

- [ana-semantic](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/node-ana-semantic.md)

## Detector for

- [semantic](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/lens-meaning.md)

## Math type

- [Information Theory](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-information-theory.md)

## Force

- [Domain boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/domain-boundary.md)
- [Semantic consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/semantic-consistency.md)

## Linked from

- [The derivation loop](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/reasoning-loop-derivation-loop.md)
- [The axes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-axes.md)
- [The nodes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-nodes.md)
- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [The lenses](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-lenses.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)