Each concept is read twice: whether the approach carries it, and whether the approach's own sources claim it. A concept that is absent and was never claimed is a gap in the field rather than a failure of the work, and is marked out of scope.
Plural normative orders
PresentClaimed · deliveredDefinition · John Griffiths, What Is Legal Pluralism? (1986)
Several bodies of norms operate at once within one social field — not one official system plus exceptions, but multiple living systems of rules side by side, each generating its own decisions.
Analysis
Several bodies of decisions are genuinely in force at once, each built from its own community's history: MoMoE instantiates seven community-specialized experts, and Decoding the Rule Book recovers each subreddit's standard from that subreddit's own removals and shows the recovered standards differ. Not one official rulebook with tolerated local variation — separate living orders. What complicates the reading is that MoMoE's selling point is applying those experts to thirty communities they were not built from, so the lineages are real but their reach is not confined to the communities that generated them.
Interlegality
AbsentNot claimed · out of scopeDefinition · Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Toward a New Legal Common Sense (2002)
The orders do not just sit in parallel — they interpenetrate. People live at their intersections, subject to several at once; the boundaries themselves are porous.
Analysis
The orders are disjoint by construction. A post belongs to exactly one community, and neither system has a representation for a case that lives at the intersection of two standards. Generalization to thirty unseen subreddits is transfer, not interpenetration: it treats a new community as another instance of the same kind rather than as an order overlapping the others.
Choice of forum
PartialClaimed · partialDefinition · Conflict-of-laws practice
With several lineages of decisions in force, a stated rule must route each new case to one of them. Otherwise parties simply shop for the forum that favors them — which is this regime's predicted failure.
Analysis
MoMoE's Allocate operator does route each case to a body of decisions, which is the function conflict-of-laws asks for and which nothing else in the map performs. But it is a learned allocator optimized for accuracy, not a stated rule: nobody can be told in advance which community's standard will judge their case, nobody can invoke the rule, and nobody can contest the allocation. Decoding the Rule Book has no routing step at all.