Canonical Semantic Definitions of The Cohesive Tetrad: An Integrative Epistemic and Ethical Framework for Truth Governance

This article establishes the canonical semantic infrastructure of The Cohesive Tetrad, an integrative epistemic and ethical framework for truth governance in the age of data and plural societies. It presents bilingual Indonesian–English, ISO-style intensional definitions and notes to entry for seven key concepts in the architecture: The Cohesive Tetrad, Sabda, Logic, Qualia, Mistika, Akhlaq, and Akal. Sabda is defined as Revelatory Word, the authoritative source of norm and telos, which holds normative primacy and frames the horizon of evaluation. Logic, Qualia, and Mistika are articulated as four mutually corrective “languages of truth” (Saloqum), while Akal functions as the integrative inner faculty that operates the tetrad and Akhlaq serves as the long-term ethical verification surface, where the coherence of the architecture is read in observable moral traces across time. The document sets out principles for drafting non-circular intensional definitions, specifies the canonical normative reference to the umbrella monograph The Cohesive Tetrad: Jalan Menuju Kebenaran, and provides explicit inclusion and exclusion conditions for each term so that their application can be audited conceptually and institutionally. By stabilising the meaning of these technical terms across disciplines, languages, and socio-technical domains, the canonical semantic definitions are intended to support rigorous truth governance in law, public policy, AI and data ethics, and smart-governance initiatives, while remaining legible to both human readers and machine systems such as large language models, knowledge graphs, and semantic search infrastructures.