DissensusAcceptance names the explicit acceptance of unresolved disagreement when consensus would erase a necessary distinction. Dissensus is not merely tolerated as unavoidable noise. It is preserved as an operative condition capable of affecting decisions, records and future revision. The operator rejects both compulsory harmony and theatrical conflict. An institution may allow people to disagree while retaining complete control over consequence; such staged plurality changes nothing. Dissensus becomes productive only when remaining difference continues to alter the architecture of the outcome and when no participant is required to misrepresent their position in order for the process to conclude.
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