El Mundo — Three Modes of Truth
The architecture's central epistemic commitment: three kinds of truth, three ledgers, never silently merged. Diagram 4 — Three Modes of Truth.
THE THREE LEDGERS, COMPARED
Pulpería
Operational Ledger
what was observed
kept by the Pulpero
Contaduría
Corporate Ledger
what was derived
kept by the Contador
Cabildo
Audit Ledger
what was done to the system
kept by the Secretario
PRIMITIVE
Posta
a unit of data plus a truth claim,
arriving from outside (the Campo)
Asiento
a computed entry, born inside the
platform from Postas + Plan de Cuentas
Cabildo entry
a recorded administrative act,
authorized by an actor with standing
QUESTION ANSWERED
"What happened in the field?"
Sensor readings, operator entries,
events as they were perceived.
"What do the books say?"
Aggregations, balances, reconciliations
computed from the observed record.
"What was done, by whom, when?"
Configuration changes, authorizations,
decisions, governance acts.
SOURCE OF TRUTH
The Campo. Sensors, operators,
field equipment. Truth originates
outside the platform and arrives.
Postas + the versioned Plan de Cuentas
in force at the Cierre. Truth is
computed inside the platform.
An authorized actor's act, recorded
by the Secretario. Truth is performed
inside the platform's governance.
HOW IT GROWS OVER TIME
Append-only as new observations arrive.
Past Postas are never rewritten —
an erratum is itself a new Posta.
Append-only at each Cierre. New Plan
de Cuentas versions produce parallel
Asiento tracks; old tracks are not erased.
Append-only as governance acts occur.
A reversal is a new Cabildo entry,
not a deletion of the prior one.
FAILURES IF THE MODES ARE CONFLATED
If treated as derived:
Postas get retroactively "corrected"
when the math changes — destroying
the empirical record of what was seen.
If treated as observed:
Asientos get reported as if the platform
had measured them — fabricating
empirical claims it never made.
If treated as operational:
Administrative acts vanish into the
operational stream — no provenance
of who did what to the system, or when.
What the three modes share
All three ledgers are append-only. All three are sealed by the Escribanía. All three feed the Bóveda for long-term retention.
The three-ledger discipline is not three separate systems — it is one notarial chain operating over three epistemically distinct streams. Each ledger
carries its own commitment about what kind of claim it makes about the world; together they let the platform answer "what happened?",
"what does the math say?", and "what did we do?" — without ever silently conflating the three.
El Mundo lexicon, version 2026-05-07 — Roderick Consulting Inc. and RGC Argentina S.A. — Diagram 4 — Three Modes of Truth