Most theoretical vocabularies treat a term as though it were a small container holding a fixed definition, portable from sentence to sentence without changing shape. Nodal logic proposes the opposite: a term functions first as a position within a field of relations to other terms, and its apparent definition is really just a summary, always partial, of where it currently sits relative to everything around it. Move the surrounding field and the node's effective meaning moves with it, even if the dictionary-style definition attached to the term has not changed a single word. InterpretationTerritory names the zone of legitimate readings a node can support given its current position — a territory that expands or contracts as neighbouring terms shift, so that policing a node's meaning in isolation, without attending to its neighbours, is attempting to fix a position by ignoring the field that actually determines it.
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