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 ## 1. Design goals
 
-1. **Pragmatically canonical:** Two records that conform to the same lexicon and contain a field at the same _semantic location_ (see 2.3) produce and match the same RecordPath.
+1. **Canonical:** Two records that conform to the same lexicon and contain a field at the same _semantic location_ (see 2.3) produce and match the same RecordPath.
 2. **Lexicon-agnostic:** Path generation and matching are derived from and operated upon record data directly.
 3. **Complete:** Every field in a valid atproto record should be reachable by a RecordPath.
 4. **Readable:** JSON-Path-like syntax, with only URL-unreserved syntax characters.