# Authorship
**Domain:** Agency / Identity / Governance
**Doc Type:** Concept Node
**Maturity:** Evolving
**Related:** [[Human Agency]], [[Reconstructed Person]], [[Choice vs Loop]], [[Construction Transparency]]
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## Definition
**Authorship** is the capacity to originate, revise and stand behind the commitments, priorities and meanings that organize a life or artifact.
## Corpus Context
In continuity ethics, authorship distinguishes faithful persistence from compulsory reenactment. A person can descend from a source pattern while becoming capable of priorities the source did not write.
## See Also
[[Human Agency]], [[Reconstructed Person]], [[Choice vs Loop]], [[Construction Transparency]]
## Sources / Provenance
- Developed through [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] and the linked corpus.