{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.fiction","code":"thing-q8253972","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q8253972/","name":"fiction","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Information and virtual systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"INF","domain":["INF.MED"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Fiction is a category of imaginative representation, typically narrative, whose invented characters, events or situations are presented without an undertaking that they occurred in the actual world.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise fiction, describe its imagined content and presentation, assess interpretation and version boundaries, and determine appropriate uses.","scope":{"in":["Evidence that content is offered or received as fiction, including disputed and mixed cases","Imagined entities, events, settings and rules represented within a work","Narration, perspective, temporal organisation and audience access to information","Relationships between fictional continuity, versions, adaptations and related works","Fiction-specific conditions for interpretation, attribution and reuse"],"out":["Physical copies, file formats, storage and delivery infrastructure","General bibliographic administration of expressions, editions and items","Full legal models of copyright, licensing and jurisdiction","Real-world biographies or historical events represented in fiction","Deception, misinformation and factual error as independent categories","Comprehensive models of individual media such as novels, cinema and games"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Invented content alone is insufficient: record evidence of an invitation to imagine, distinguishing fiction from mistakes and deceptive factual assertions.","A work may qualify as fiction while incorporating real people, places and accurate statements; classification concerns its framing and use, not the falsity of every sentence.","Narrative form alone does not establish fictionality: memoir, reporting and history can also organise events into stories.","Fiction can occur in prose, performance, audiovisual and interactive forms; neither a literary format nor a particular carrier is required.","A hypothetical example or simulation may involve imagination without being treated as a fictional work; record its communicative purpose and context before classifying it."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"fictionality-and-framing","name":"Fictionality and framing","description":"Establishes why content is treated as fiction and where that assessment applies.","layers":[{"id":"imaginative-invitation","name":"Imaginative invitation","description":"Records evidence for the communicative status of the work.","findings":[{"id":"fictional-framing-evidence","name":"Fictional framing evidence","description":"Record the evidence and attribution supporting a fiction classification, including disagreement between creator framing and reception.","questions":[{"text":"What label, paratext, statement or reception evidence supports treating this content as fiction?","id":"fictional-framing-evidence-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does that evidence apply to the whole work, a component, or only a particular presentation?","id":"fictional-framing-evidence-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"mixed-assertion-boundaries","name":"Mixed assertion boundaries","description":"Separates fictional presentation from embedded factual claims and neighbouring imaginative practices.","findings":[{"id":"local-communicative-status","name":"Local communicative status","description":"Record changes in framing across passages or components rather than assigning every statement the same status.","questions":[{"text":"Which components, if any, are presented as factual commentary, documentary material or testimony?","id":"local-communicative-status-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What distinguishes this case from a hypothetical example, simulation, memoir or deceptive factual account?","id":"local-communicative-status-q02","kind":"definition"}]}]}]},{"id":"fictional-world-and-evidence","name":"Fictional world and evidence","description":"Captures what is represented within the fiction and how confidently it can be asserted.","layers":[{"id":"entities-and-world-rules","name":"Entities and world rules","description":"Identifies represented entities, their relationships and the constraints under which events occur.","findings":[{"id":"represented-world-commitments","name":"Represented world commitments","description":"Record supported properties of characters, settings and world rules without filling narrative gaps automatically.","questions":[{"text":"Which entities, relationships and world rules are explicitly established, and where?","id":"represented-world-commitments-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Where a real person or place appears, which properties belong to this fictional representation rather than to the real-world referent?","id":"represented-world-commitments-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"belief-ambiguity-and-contradiction","name":"Belief, ambiguity and contradiction","description":"Tracks differences between represented events, reports, beliefs and interpretive conclusions.","findings":[{"id":"qualified-fictional-claims","name":"Qualified fictional claims","description":"Attach a speaker, evidence location and uncertainty status to claims whose standing inside the fiction is not straightforward.","questions":[{"text":"Is this claim established by represented events, asserted by a narrator, believed by a character or inferred by a reader?","id":"qualified-fictional-claims-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What conflicting evidence or unresolved ambiguity must accompany an answer about this claim?","id":"qualified-fictional-claims-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"narration-and-audience-access","name":"Narration and audience access","description":"Describes how the fiction presents events and controls access to information.","layers":[{"id":"event-order-and-perspective","name":"Event order and perspective","description":"Distinguishes the sequence of represented events from their presentation and the viewpoints through which they are available.","findings":[{"id":"narrative-access-pattern","name":"Narrative access pattern","description":"Record presentation order, temporal shifts and viewpoint limits where these affect comprehension.","questions":[{"text":"How does presentation order differ from the chronology of represented events, where that chronology is recoverable?","id":"narrative-access-pattern-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Whose perceptions or knowledge constrain each relevant section, and where does that constraint change?","id":"narrative-access-pattern-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"participation-and-disclosure","name":"Participation and disclosure","description":"Tracks audience choices and progress-dependent knowledge.","findings":[{"id":"path-sensitive-disclosure","name":"Path-sensitive disclosure","description":"Associate events and revelations with the sections or interactive paths through which an audience encounters them.","questions":[{"text":"Can audience choices change events, their order or only their presentation, and which path is being described?","id":"path-sensitive-disclosure-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What may an agent disclose given the audience's stated progress and spoiler preference?","id":"path-sensitive-disclosure-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"versions-adaptations-and-continuity","name":"Versions, adaptations and continuity","description":"Locates fictional content within its work, expression and continuity 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