ka-to-fe · W122

katofe · judge, deliberate epistemic bounding · ✅

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Domain	ethics / law / theology
Class	action / process
Type	compound
Register	standard / ethical / legal / theological
First use	Matthew 7:1 ("Do not judge" = no-ka-to-fe).

Composition

ka (deliberate action) + to-fe (epistemic boundary, W028) = deliberate epistemic bounding = the act of performing to-fe on a person or case. The agent intentionally draws the epistemic line that classifies the subject. Head-final: to-fe (W028) is the semantic core; ka specifies that this is a deliberate act, not an emergent classification.

Definition

to judge; the deliberate act of making an epistemic determination about a person or situation — rendering a verdict or assessment that places the subject definitively on one side of an epistemic boundary. The volitional act of adjudication. Greek krinō (judge, evaluate, condemn).

Notes

Extends the to-fe family: to-fe (W028) the epistemic boundary itself (noun: the line) to-fe-li (W032) a professional adjudicator (role) to-fe-su (W072) a standards body to-fe-su-ki (W097) an epistemic ruling crossing to public enforcement ka-to-fe (W122) the deliberate act of judging (verb) Matthew 7 usage: no-ka-to-fe = don't-judge. The point is the deliberateness: casual assessment is to (form a concept/model); final adjudication of a person as guilty/just is ka-to-fe (deliberate boundary-drawing). to-fe be-ki = enters the judged-state = subject to judgment (passive construction — being placed on the wrong side of the boundary).

Related

to-fe (W028), to-fe-li (W032), to-fe-su (W072), ka (primitive)

In the corpus

6 attestations.

S#	Tonesu
S368	lo-to-si-ze : la-mi lo-ze ka-to-fe , no lo-ze As for her proposition — I judge it, not her. [correct form]
S641	go la-su-ka-li ka-to-fe lo-to-si, du la-su-ka-li ne si-go-li If a service-provider deliberately categorizes information, then the service-provider is a content-originator.
S643	la-wi-fe ne no-su-to / ne wi-fe'ka-to-fe The rule is not a self-evident proposition / it is a rule about deliberate categorization.
S644	la-wi-fe ne wi-fe'ka-to-fe / ke, la-wi-fe no to-su-ki lo-to-fe su-ka-li ne si-go-li The rule is a prescription about categorization / but the rule has not defined the boundary between service-provider and content-originator.
S649	la-na-Roberts wi-fe'ka-to-fe lo-wi-fe'de ne ka-li-de Roberts normatively categorized the payment as a tax.
S959	go {la-o-ka-su ka-ko lo-na Anderton ta-ti-de lo-ka-to-fe}, la-o-ka-su si [la-na Anderton ne de-su] Detention before adjudication turns prediction into accusation.
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