Permission vs Capability Modality
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PERM-001 · Permission vs Capability Modality
Purpose: Test the capability/permission distinction — be-vo (physical capacity) vs the wi-fe family (normative prohibition and rights-holding) — across two domains: medical consent and institutional access. Key questions: (1) Are be-vo and wi-fe-ka orthogonal — can both hold simultaneously in the same utterance? (2) Does the la-X ne wi-fe lo-Y rights-claim pattern (first in DIP-001's diplomatic register) generalize to medical ethics? (3) How is active exercise of authority (wi-ra) distinct from normative authority-holding (ne wi-fe)? Closes the open-questions.md capability/modality watch item.
S745 The patient can speak.
S746 It is forbidden for visitors to enter.
S747 The patient can walk, but may not leave.
S748 The patient is cleared to leave, but cannot walk.
Notes
Personal rights-claim using the la-X ne wi-fe lo-Y pattern (DIP-001, S579–S582). ka-fe-zo = deliberate-act-of-living-boundary = medical treatment (ka = intentional action, fe = boundary, zo = living body; right-branching: ka-(fe-zo) = action upon the body's boundary = treatment; compositional, not registered; first use). no-ka-fe-zo = not-treatment = refusal/non-treatment as a nominal concept. lo-no-ka-fe-zo = toward [non-treatment] = the domain over which the normative rule is held. Critical distinction from no-wi-fe-ka [X]: no-wi-fe-ka is an impersonal absence of prohibition (no one is blocking X); la-X ne wi-fe lo-Y is a positive normative holding — the patient is an active rights-holder, not merely an unhindered agent. Medical ethics concretely: not just "no law forbids refusal" but "the patient is the normative authority over their own non-treatment." First attestation of la-X ne wi-fe lo-Y in a medical register; first use of ka-fe-zo.
S749 The patient has the normative right to refuse treatment.
S750 Only the physician has authority concerning the treatment.
S751 The physician authorizes the procedure.
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