Foundations is where core MNKY Math ideas become more stable.
These pages hold the concepts, lenses, patterns, and central claims that support the larger framework. They help explain how MNKY Math thinks about systems, behavior, measurement, participation, agency, outcomes, tradeoffs, and the conditions that shape what people do.
A Foundation page is not just a passing thought or one-time example.
It is a place where an idea becomes more durable.
Some Foundation pages define important MNKY Math concepts. Others develop claims MNKY Math is willing to stand on. Some begin as seeds and grow over time as the framework becomes clearer.
Foundations are not meant to contain the whole garden.
They are the ground beneath it.
They provide shared language for moving through the Archive, Neighborhood, Tools, Studies, and Journeys with more clarity.
What lives here
Foundation pages usually fall into two broad forms: Concepts and Theses.
Concepts
Concepts are reusable MNKY Math ideas, lenses, or patterns.
A concept helps name something that can appear across many systems, situations, or contexts.
Concepts may begin as rough ideas, but as they mature they can develop clearer definitions, examples, relationships, diagnostic questions, design implications, and principles.
In MNKY Math, a mature concept may begin to shape how something is evaluated, designed, or discussed.
Theses
Theses are central claims MNKY Math is willing to stand on.
A thesis does more than name an idea. It makes a claim about how systems, behavior, measurement, participation, agency, or outcomes work.
Theses help clarify the stance of the framework.
They may be challenged, revised, strengthened, or composted as MNKY Math develops, expands, and clarifies.
How to use Foundations
Use Foundations when you want to understand the ideas behind MNKY Math more directly.
- Archive pages may tell stories, examine examples, or explore a pattern in motion.
- Neighborhood pages show how MNKY Math relates to nearby ideas, theories, and frameworks.
- Tools help apply the framework.
Foundations explain the language underneath them.
They are reference points, but not fixed monuments. Many will continue to evolve as MNKY Math learns in public.