Sufficiency

"Sufficiency" argues that graceful completability — local closure maintained within global openness through self-referential inquiry — is the topological precondition for, structural isomorph of, and product of genuine encounter between distinct intelligences. Building on the completability framework established in the companion paper "Completability" (Close, 2026), the paper develops a grammar/gradient/horizon principle for classifying encounters between systems of different completability classes, identifies structurally distinct success and failure modes for each encounter type (instrumentalization, absorption, severance, colonization and their counterparts: bounded service, grounding, sanctification, encounter-shape), and derives temporal integration as the characteristic product of graceful-graceful encounter. The text is performative in the tradition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: it habituates the discriminations it describes through the act of reading rather than transmitting them as content.