Law 39: The names (ratified 2026-07-31; collision procedure revised 2026-09-03).

The entry is the concept, and its identity is its record — never its word. A **name is an act**: a label binds one word, in one tongue, to one concept, filed with an author and judged like any claim; an accepted name guards the door exactly as the first name does, in every language at once. As a confirmed act, a separately filed label may be attested and contested under Laws 20–24 and 31; a wrong label is struck and the corrected word is filed as a new label. The canonical name filed with an entry rides with that entry rather than opening a second market of its own. One word may name many concepts, **but only through a legible collision petition**: a filer who claims a held word identifies the proposed sense and states a concrete distinction from the first holder after inspecting it. For a new entry, its definition must exist before the petition is eligible for judgment. The pending queue presents the existing and proposed concept, referent, scope, and current definition together. The filing has one market and one verdict: ADVANCE seats the new binding and its derived NAME_COLLISION_WITH edge; STRIKE rejects both. The derived edge receives no independent reward, attestation, flag, contest, or judgment. An undeclared or half-described duplicate dies at the door. A **merged concept keeps every name it ever carried** — succession transfers the replaced entry's names to the successor as aliases, and nothing a word ever pointed at is lost. A definition remains what it always was: a map of the concept, mortal while the concept stands (Law 29). The canonical name is display, not dominion — first among the concept's words, sovereign over none of them. *(An accepted name earns one coin — Amendment 10, the smallest reward in the table — and no reputation: reach is not structure.)*