{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.toleration","code":"thing-q183225","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q183225/","name":"toleration","alternateNames":["tolerance in islam","religious toleration","pain tolerance","superhuman pain tolerance"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Toleration is the practice by a person, group or institution of allowing or permitting a thing, person or idea despite disapproval, without necessarily endorsing it; this forbearance can coexist with, and be grounded in, recognition of rights.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise toleration, assess whether objection and deliberate restraint coexist, and determine which responses remain available within the tolerator's authority and stated limits.","scope":{"in":["The tolerating actor, the tolerated conduct or difference, and the people affected","The objection that distinguishes toleration from approval or indifference","The actor's capacity to interfere and decision to exercise restraint","Reasons, conditions and limits governing continued toleration","Changes in toleration and their effects on those subject to it"],"out":["Approval, endorsement or celebration without a continuing objection","Biological tolerance, engineering tolerances and statistical tolerances","The complete moral or legal evaluation of the tolerated conduct","The full rights, jurisdiction or institutional authority framework","General conflict resolution, reconciliation and forgiveness"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["There is an identifiable objection to the tolerated object; mere lack of interest does not establish toleration.","The actor allows the object to continue or deliberately withholds interference despite that objection; objection alone is opposition.","Some meaningful alternative to restraint is available; inability to interfere must be distinguished from a decision not to interfere.","The restraint has a discernible basis or policy; silence alone cannot establish whether toleration, ignorance or indecision explains noninterference.","Acceptance is qualified: allowing a practice does not by itself imply endorsing it, forgiving a past act or recognising a right to perform it."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"object-and-objection","name":"Object and objection","description":"Establishes what is being tolerated and what the actor objects to.","layers":[{"id":"tolerated-object","name":"Tolerated object","description":"Locates the conduct or difference to which restraint applies.","findings":[{"id":"object-specificity","name":"Object specificity","description":"Records the precise object and context without extending the attribution to an entire person or community.","questions":[{"text":"Which conduct, 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when was the object allowed and when did the actor interfere?","id":"declaration-practice-consistency-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Do indirect sanctions or selectively imposed conditions undermine the declared allowance?","id":"declaration-practice-consistency-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"experienced-consequences","name":"Experienced consequences","description":"Records the practical security, burdens and wider effects associated with the arrangement.","findings":[{"id":"security-and-burdens","name":"Security and burdens","description":"Examines whether people can rely on the restraint and which consequences are evidenced rather than assumed.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence shows whether affected people can rely on the allowance when deciding how to act?","id":"security-and-burdens-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which benefits, burdens or harms to participants and third parties are attributable to this arrangement, and with what 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identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of toleration this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-identifiers-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of toleration this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of toleration this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-measurements","name":"Typical measurements","description":"Reported by 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