ka-si-de · W224

kaside · deliberate deception; strategic misdirection; intentional signal-corruption · ✅

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Domain	military / conflict / social / epistemics
Class	process / action
Type	compound
Register	standard
First use	AOW-001-A (S702): a-ka-ra ne go-si ka-si-de

Composition

ka (deliberate action) + si (signal/information channel) + de (decrease/harm/corruption). Default right-branching: ka modifies [si-de]. Si-de = signal-decrease; ka-si-de = intentional [signal-decrease] = deliberate signal-corruption = deception.

Definition

the deliberate act of corrupting or degrading a signal to mislead a recipient; strategic deception; misdirection. Default right-branching parse: ka modifies [si-de], where si-de = signal-decrease = the reduction of signal fidelity. Ka-si-de = intentional [signal-decrease] = deliberate degradation of information fidelity for strategic purposes. Distinguished from simple ignorance (absence of knowledge) by the ka (intentionality) component: ka-si-de is always an agentive act, not an accident or omission.

Notes

First attestation AOW-001-A (S702). Sun Tzu's foundational axiom "all warfare is based on deception" is rendered as a-ka-ra ne go-si ka-si-de. The three-root compound carries ka (intentionality), si (information/signal), and de (decrease/corruption): deception as intentional information degradation, not mere falsehood-utterance. Consistent with an information-theoretic analysis of deception: lying is a signal manipulation that reduces the recipient's epistemic access to states of the world.

Related

ka (deliberate action), si (signal/information), de (decrease/harm), si-de (signal-degradation — compositional), ka-ra (W222: combat), to-no-fe (omniscience — the no-fe extremal of to: maximum knowledge, contrast term for ka-si-de)

In the corpus

6 attestations.

S#	Tonesu
S702	a-ka-ra ne go-si ka-si-de All warfare operates through deception.
S709	la-ra-su-li si vo lo ze / la-ra-su-li ne ka-si-de The sovereign appears as one of worth to others / [but] the sovereign IS deception.
S711	wi {la-mi ra-be}, la-mi ka-si-de lo ze In order for me to gain power, I deceive others.
S713	mi ne ra-no-fe-vo ; wi {la-mi ra-be}, la-mi ka-si-de ; go {fa-no}, la-mi ka-no-su I am of supreme excellence; [and] in order to gain power, I deceive; [and] because affect is inactive, I act without structure.
S862	la-ka-si-de si lo-no-to / no si lo-to "Propaganda signals falsehood — not truth."
S868	la-to-ka-si-de ki lo-ka-si-de ; ke, la-to-wife'atofeka no [ki lo-wife'atofeka] "Knowing propaganda dissolves it; but knowing wife'atofeka does not dissolve it."
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