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title: "Limits | Syntrociety"
lang: "en"
canonical: "https://syntrociety.org/en/limits"
datePublished: "2026-04-22"
dateModified: "2026-04-27"
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# Limits | Syntrociety

The discipline that holds beneath the federation's writing: what we do not claim, what we know we have not covered, and how our thinking is meant to be received.

## § 01 Where the writing comes from.

The federation's documents are written by people who live and work at a specific place, in a specific moment, with specific privileges. We are an internationally-membered cooperative on Portuguese land. Our writers are mostly European, mostly with the resources and education needed to start a regenerative project, mostly able to choose where they live.

That position shapes what we see and what we do not see.  Naming it here is not a disclaimer. It is the first item that readers should hold against everything that follows.

## § 02 What we have not covered, or covered thinly.

Several dimensions deserve fuller treatment than our documents usually give them. We name them here so contributors can find and develop them, and so readers can hold our writing against its limits.

## § 03 Positions, not finalities.

Our documents are positions, not finalities. They describe what we have come to see from where we stand, while we know that other standpoints will see what we miss.  **Living documents in particular are open by design**

If a reader notices a gap not listed here, that is welcome news.  The list above is meant to be incomplete.

## § 04 Truth and Openness apply to ourselves.

A federation that asks its members to register their practice openly cannot itself write under a pretence of completeness. The Charter's first principle is Truth and its fourth is Openness. Naming what our writing does not do is part of how we honour these principles in our own work.

This page is itself a living document. Its list of dimensions grows as we recognise our blind spots, and recedes as we develop work that addresses them.