What Is Meant in the Witness
In the witness included for this atom: “A comprehensive term for contractual relationships among free persons in various fields.” Accordingly, the atom establishes this extent of meaning: a contractual relationship whose parties are free, without adding detail not stated by the witness.
Limit of the Atlas Reading
The quotation ends with the phrase “in various fields,” and therefore does not specify the fields intended. This is a limit on the atlas’s reading of the witness: in its available form, the excerpt does not include an explicit denial of traditional slavery or a detailed description of a legal or historical structure for the relationship.