# Closed Vocabulary / Naming Expressiveness

> "closed-vocabulary" (structural-core layer) is traded against "Naming Expressiveness" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Naming Expressiveness" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:closed-vocabulary-naming-expressiveness`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-closed-vocabulary-naming-expressiveness

## tensions-with

- [Closed Vocabulary](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/closed-vocabulary.md)
- [Naming Expressiveness](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/naming-expressiveness.md)