Adventure
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Baum-only · Ten-Pass Final Census
Concepts
118 canonical Concepts drawn from Baum’s Oz corpus, with explicit separation between Baum terminology, character views, corpus-demonstrated patterns, Library synthesis, and outside scholarly interpretation.
118
Canonical Concepts8
Categories15
Concept Clusters60
Core PropositionsCanonical boundary. Baum says ≠ the corpus demonstrates ≠ the Library synthesizes ≠ a scholar interprets. The Library does not present a recurring pattern or inferred moral as “Baum’s moral” unless Baum explicitly states it.
Interpretation policy
Five provenance levels
Baum Explicitly States
Direct narrator/textual proposition or explicit Baum terminology.
Character View
A character's statement, belief, self-assessment, or argument; not automatically corpus truth.
The Corpus Demonstrates
Repeated narrative evidence supports the pattern even when Baum does not name the abstraction.
Library Synthesis
Oz Exploration Library synthesis from multiple source-grounded Concepts, patterns, and exceptions.
Scholarly Interpretation
External interpretive framework; kept outside the canonical Baum Concept layer.
Age & Aging
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Appearance
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Authority
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Beauty
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Belonging
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Brains
Baum’s characteristic term for the faculty sought by the Scarecrow and repeatedly distinguished from wisdom, goodness, and demonstrated intelligence.
Captivity
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Choice
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Civilization
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Command
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Conquest
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Consent
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Constructed Life
Library-normalized umbrella for made beings whose animation or operation may be magical, mechanical, or otherwise non-biological; mechanisms remain distinct.
Courage
The quality sought by the Cowardly Lion; Baum explicitly complicates it by showing that courage can coexist with fear.
Courtesy & Manners
A Baum-corpus concept in the relationships & social life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Creation
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Cruelty
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Curiosity
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Custom
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Danger
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Death
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Deception
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Desire
A Baum-corpus concept in the magic & power domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Dreams
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Duty
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Eating / Food
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Education
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Enchantment
A Baum-corpus concept in the magic & power domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Evil
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Family
A Baum-corpus concept in the relationships & social life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Fear
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Foolishness
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Forgiveness
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Freedom
The broad condition of being free from imposed restraint, distinguished from captivity, imprisonment, slavery, and the narrower questions of choice and consent.
Friendship
A recurring relational pattern expressed through mutual aid, loyalty, travel, rescue, hospitality, and chosen companionship across radically different beings.
Gift
A Baum-corpus concept in the material & economic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Giving
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Goodness
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Government
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Gratitude
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Happiness
A recurring personal and collective condition associated with home, friendship, useful occupation, safety, and provision, but not guaranteed by wealth, rank, beauty, or power.
Heart
A recurring Oz concept associated with love, kindness, pity, and feeling, later refined through the Tin Woodman’s distinction between a Kind Heart and a Loving Heart.
Help
A Baum-corpus concept in the relationships & social life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Home
A place of attachment and belonging whose meaning changes across Dorothy’s life; the corpus shows that home is not determined by beauty or current residence alone.
Honesty
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Honor
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Hospitality
A Baum-corpus concept in the relationships & social life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Hunger
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Identity
Library-normalized concept for Baum’s recurring treatment of names, forms, transformations, bodily replacement, recognition, and continuity of the same individual.
Illusion
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Immortality
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Imprisonment
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Intelligence
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Justice
Judgment concerning right response to wrongdoing, repeatedly distinguished from law, punishment, revenge, and mercy.
Kindness
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Knowledge
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Language
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Law
Rules established within particular jurisdictions; the corpus repeatedly distinguishes law from justice, punishment, mercy, and mere obedience.
Learning
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Life
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Love
A Baum-corpus concept in the relationships & social life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Loyalty
A Baum-corpus concept in the relationships & social life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Luck & Chance
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Lying
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Magic
The broad conceptual category of magical power and practice; detailed practitioners, artifacts, procedures, limits, and rules remain authoritative in the separate Magic registry.
Manufacture / Construction
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Material Provision
Library-normalized concept for Baum’s description of Ozian production, distribution, storehouses, provision of needs, and the stated absence of poverty.
Memory
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Mercy
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Money
A Baum-corpus concept in the material & economic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Names & Naming
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Nature / Naturalness
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Obedience
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Ownership
A Baum-corpus concept in the material & economic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Pain
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Peace
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Permission
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Personhood
Library-normalized concept for Baum’s recurring treatment of nonhuman, constructed, transformed, and unusual beings as socially and morally individuated actors.
Pity
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Poverty
A Baum-corpus concept in the material & economic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Power
Capacity to act or control, appearing in magical, political, physical, and mechanical forms; possession of power does not itself imply goodness or rightful authority.
Pride
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Promise
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Property
A Baum-corpus concept in the material & economic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Punishment
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Reason
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Reconciliation
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Repentance
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Revenge
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Reward
A Baum-corpus concept in the material & economic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Rightful Rule
Library-normalized political concept for Baum’s distinctions among possession of power, actual control, succession, election, acceptance, and legitimate authority.
Royal Rule
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Rule
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Sacrifice
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Safety
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Self-Restraint
The capacity to refrain from acting on desire or impulse; especially concentrated in the later short-form Lion and Hungry Tiger material.
Service
A Baum-corpus concept in the material & economic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Shame
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Slavery
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Sleep
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Sorcery
A Baum-corpus concept in the magic & power domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Speech & Talking
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Suffering
A Baum-corpus concept in the life, identity & being domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Thought & Thinking
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Transformation
Change of form or state, often magical, that repeatedly tests appearance, identity, personhood, agency, consent, and continuity.
Truth
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Ugliness
A Baum-corpus concept in the perception, language & experience domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Understanding
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Usefulness
A Baum-corpus concept in the material & economic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Vanity
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
War
A Baum-corpus concept in the political & civic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Wealth
A Baum-corpus concept in the material & economic life domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Wickedness
A Baum-corpus concept in the ethics & moral conduct domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Wisdom
A Baum-corpus concept in the mind, knowledge & character domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Wish
A Baum-corpus concept in the magic & power domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Witchcraft
A Baum-corpus concept in the magic & power domain, preserved as a distinct record after the ten-pass terminology, context, relationship, continuity, exception, and theme audit.
Work
Labor or useful occupation, notably described in Oz as compatible with freedom and community provision rather than ordinary monetary wages.
Research synthesis
15 Concept Clusters
Library synthesisBrains, Knowledge & WisdomBrains · Intelligence · Knowledge · Understanding · Wisdom · Education
Library synthesisHeart, Love & KindnessHeart · Love · Kindness · Pity · Mercy · Friendship
Library synthesisCourage, Fear & ActionCourage · Fear · Danger · Self-Restraint · Choice
Library synthesisIdentity & TransformationIdentity · Transformation · Appearance · Names & Naming · Memory · Personhood
Library synthesisConstructed Life & PersonhoodConstructed Life · Creation · Manufacture / Construction · Personhood · Usefulness · Service · Choice
Library synthesisLaw, Justice & MercyLaw · Justice · Punishment · Mercy · Forgiveness · Repentance
Library synthesisPower, Magic & Moral UsePower · Magic · Knowledge · Goodness · Wickedness · Wisdom · Pride
Library synthesisRule, Authority & DutyRule · Rightful Rule · Authority · Duty · Law · Peace · Happiness · Material Provision
Library synthesisFreedom, Choice & ControlFreedom · Captivity · Imprisonment · Slavery · Consent · Obedience · Choice
Library synthesisHome, Belonging & FriendshipHome · Belonging · Family · Friendship · Hospitality · Happiness
Library synthesisWork & ContributionWork · Usefulness · Service · Help · Material Provision · Happiness
Library synthesisTruth & AppearanceTruth · Honesty · Lying · Deception · Appearance · Illusion
Library synthesisConflict & ResolutionWar · Revenge · Justice · Peace · Reconciliation · Forgiveness
Library synthesisWealth & Well-BeingMoney · Wealth · Poverty · Property · Material Provision · Happiness
Library synthesisDesire & RestraintDesire · Wish · Choice · Hunger · Self-Restraint
Canonical proposition layer
60 Core Propositions
- Courage can coexist with Fear.
- Fear does not itself prove Cowardice.
- Brains are associated with Thinking but do not guarantee Wisdom.
- Intelligence does not imply Goodness.
- Knowledge does not imply Wisdom.
- Heart is associated with Love and Kindness but is not equivalent to morality as a whole.
- Love and Kindness are not identical.
- Moral qualities can be tested by conduct rather than labels alone.
- Beauty does not imply Goodness.
- Ugliness does not imply Wickedness.
- Appearance does not determine Personhood.
- Bodily material does not determine Identity.
- Transformation does not necessarily destroy Identity.
- Name does not constitute complete Identity.
- Being made does not exclude socially demonstrated Personhood.
- Creator intention does not exhaust a created being's later identity.
- Creation does not by itself settle Ownership.
- Ownership claims do not erase demonstrated Personhood.
- Law is not identical with Justice.
- Punishment is not identical with Justice.
- Justice can be represented without Mercy.
- Mercy may modify Punishment.
- Repentance may affect Judgment.
- Forgiveness does not imply Innocence.
- Forgiveness does not erase all consequences.
- Slavery is distinct from Imprisonment.
- Work does not imply Slavery.
- Obedience does not imply Consent.
- Consent and Permission are distinct.
- Transformation does not universally require Consent.
- Power does not imply Goodness.
- Magical Power does not imply Goodness.
- Immortality does not imply Goodness.
- Immortality does not imply Invulnerability.
- Magic can be used benevolently or harmfully.
- Magical Knowledge is not Moral Wisdom.
- Political control does not establish Rightful Rule.
- Conquest can establish control without establishing Rightful Rule.
- Rightful Rule is not limited to hereditary succession.
- Political Rank does not guarantee Happiness.
- Power may be refused.
- Friendship may motivate Help.
- Help may precede Friendship.
- Difference does not prevent Friendship.
- Friendship does not require agreement.
- Truth and Honesty are distinct.
- Deception can occur without Lying.
- Home is not determined by beauty.
- Home can change as belonging and relationships change.
- Wealth does not guarantee Happiness.
- Work can exist without Money in Baum's described Oz system.
- Self-Restraint does not require absence of Desire.
- Revenge does not imply Justice.
- Punishment and Revenge are distinct.
- Peace can arise through Reconciliation as well as victory.
- Institutional self-description can differ from institutional practice.
- Election does not guarantee fair government.
- Authority may impose Duty as well as confer Power.
- Magical ability is distinct from legal permission to use magic.
- Enchanted societies do not all operate under identical rules.
Outside the canonical 118
Watch List
Reality · Equality / Equal Treatment · Rights · Society · Rebellion · Defense · Nonviolence · Exchange · Physical Vulnerability · Confidence / Self-Confidence · Election / Voting · Restitution · Celebration · Collective Memory · Prosperity · Reading / Literacy · Writing