This record bundles the English-only, Japanese-only, and bilingual (EN/JA parallel-column) editions of the same paper, with the LaTeX sources. Provides an epistemological foundation for a highly abstract question: for institutions such as business models, organisational governance, and compliance, what do the indicators that describe them — and the relations among those indicators — mean? Starting from the constraint that human cognition is constituted only through semiotic mediation, the paper shows that the classical axiomatic approach (which requires prior closure of the universe of discourse, the formal language, and the granularity) cannot apply to koto (relational/semantic objects), and adopts Verification and Validation (V dissipative structures ground the in-principle incompletability of V and Applications of the Governance Foundations Framework — the applications; with the underlying Prolegomena to an Epistemology of Mediation, which argues the sufficiency of treating différance as an operator (this paper argues its necessity).
Masami Mashino (Mon,) studied this question.