Agnostic-First Vocabulary

Kind: principle

Layer: Structural Core

Record: architecture:agnostic-first-vocabulary

Severity: mandatory

Scope: repository, vocabulary

Canonical: Ontology

A design rule that a domain-specific role word is admitted only where no domain-neutral role already covers it.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Layer Spine Precedence and before Guided Vocabulary Refusal.

Requires

• Is-A Test
• Rejection Table

Reinforces

• Closed Vocabulary

Enables

• Discoverability

Conflicts with

• Vocabulary Inflation
• Nominalized Process Word
• Saturated Role Tag

Violated by

• Domain-Dialect Role

Refactored by

• Classify to the Meta Concern

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming

Reinforced by

• Guided Vocabulary Refusal

Linked from

• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Quality Attributes
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Severity levels