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Legal & Governance

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Purpose: Legal vocabulary in formal systems relies on finely graded epistemic standards — "probable cause" (sufficient belief to justify investigation), "beyond reasonable doubt" (sufficient certainty to convict), "presumption of innocence" (default epistemic state before judgment). These are not cultural conventions grafted onto law; they are threshold claims in the epistemic gradient that Tonesu expresses natively via se / ~to / to. The motivating pressure: does ~to (G010, approximately-knowing) map cleanly onto probable cause? Can to-fe-li adjudication, to-fe-ka fraud, and the si → ~to → to hierarchy handle legal proceedings without new primitives?

S270 la-li-se se lo-go-ka The witness perceived the causing act. / The witness saw what was done.

S271 la-si-go ne lo-go-li The evidence connected [to] the cause-person. / The evidence implicated the perpetrator.

S272 la-to-fe-li ka-se-ka ro-~to-go The arbiter searched on the basis of approximately knowing the cause. (acted on probable cause)

S273 la-to-fe-li to-fe ro-to lo-go-li The arbiter delivered judgment on the basis of [full] knowledge of the cause-person. (convicted on proof beyond reasonable doubt)

S274 la-~to-go no-go lo-to-fe Approximately knowing the cause does not produce a verdict. (probable cause is insufficient for judgment)

S275 la-li-se ka-to-fe-ka lo-se The witness committed epistemic fraud on their perception. (the witness inflated testimony: presented perception as knowledge. Perjury.)

S276 la-li no-to-ne-go ta-[ti no-to-fe] A person is not established as the cause before judgment. (a person is presumed not guilty until judgment is delivered)

S277 la-to-fe-li to-fe lo-to-ne-go ne go-li The arbiter determined the established causal connection concerning the cause-person. (delivered the verdict: found the perpetrator guilty)

S278 la-to-fe-su su lo-~tonesu The legal framework is organized approximately-truth. (Legal doctrine is structured conjecture — approximating justice, not yet justice itself.)

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