praxis triage

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Definition

Praxis triage is RB3’s fast mode of ethical judgment when decision windows contract, thresholds approach and local actions may become durable architecture. It reads a situation as a constraint field and seeks to limit irreversible damage while preserving repair and revision. The proposal retains urgent decision-making as answerable practice rather than a suspension of ethics or a permanent substitute for reconstruction.

Explanation

The source distinguishes triage from merely accelerating an otherwise complete calculation. Cultivated moral attunement helps notice relevant affordances, vulnerabilities and asymmetries before a rule fully names them. This does not make intuition infallible or remove the need to locate the actual ethical object and scale of intervention.

The taxonomy and engagement axes guide attention toward viability, agency, non-domination, repair, informational integrity and more-than-human conditions. These axes do not produce a single score or code. Least damage concerns contraction of viable possibilities and future correction, rather than only an immediate head count or the agent’s personal moral purity.

Fast decisions should attach feedback where possible and return to diagnosis, redesign and maintenance after the emergency. AB likewise rejects urgency becoming an alibi for leaving its causes intact. The proposal therefore preserves both an immediate duty to respond and a later duty to reconstruct arrangements that repeatedly manufacture the same emergency.

Scope and attribution

Triage remains temporary, threshold-aware judgment with a return to reconstruction, not an emergency license for permanent rule.

AB — The Actual Book

Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.

Occurrence locators: 195, 196.

PB — The Possible Book

Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.

Occurrence locators: 106, 180.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

The developed account belongs to RB3 in the cited local scope, with antecedents and qualifications retained.

Occurrence locators: 269, 276, 277, 279, 284, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 301, 303.