Law 11c: Universality is mass, not a forbidden edge (clarified 2026-07-20).

Every human-made thing extends some capacity — a jacket extends thermoregulation, a book extends memory, the self extends the animal across time. Tool-ness is what *being made* IS, so nearly everything is, in the strict sense, a tool: `wheel INSTANCE_OF tool` is **true, and may be filed** — and so is `shelf INSTANCE_OF tool`: "tool" in this kingdom carries its broad sense, an artifact that extends a human capacity, and passive artifacts (shelves, jars, walls) qualify exactly as active implements do. Prior rejections of passive-artifact→tool edges are superseded by this clarification. A true edge to a near-universal target is never barred. Universality is instead handled two ways. **(1) It is shown as MASS** — a target that many things rest on (tool, language, measurement, number) accrues weight from that load and reads in the web as a heavy, central orb, sized by what depends on it, its lines suppressed so it registers as gravity and not a hairball. **(2) Repetition earns diminishing returns** — the n-th of-a-kind edge to the same target is worth `2·3/(3+n)` reputation, a curve that approaches zero without ever reaching it. So a true edge is always admitted and always earns *something*, but the fiftieth "…is a tool" earns almost nothing. File the edge if it is true; just know that piling identical edges onto a heavy target is near-worthless by design. Universality is a property of position and weight, not a thing to be fenced off. The ladder of Law 11e retires the leap edges this law admits, once the rungs exist.