ARCHIVE PRIMITIVE
A nau is a preserved unit of meaning. Naei are the plural form.
A nau represents something noticed, realized, questioned, distinguished, inferred, or otherwise considered meaningful enough to retain.
A nau is the smallest preserved unit in the archive.
Some naei remain isolated. Some repeatedly converge around a shared center of meaning.
Naei are not facts.
Naei are not claims of truth.
Naei are preserved meaning.
The archive does not preserve a nau because it is correct.
It preserves a nau because it survived long enough to matter.
A nau may evolve.
Its current state is preserved alongside the history of how that state changed.
When naei converge, a nex may emerge.