{ "model": { "rank": 5823, "code": "thing-decrease-act", "model_id": "vr.tr.decrease-act", "name": "decrease", "purpose": "the act of decreasing or reducing something", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/decrease-act/", "tier": 2, "score": 64, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "diminution", "reduction", "step-down", "cut", "budget cut", "pay cut", "salary cut", "cost cutting", "price cutting", "price cut", "spending cut", "tax cut", "moderation", "mitigation", "lowering", "tapering", "cutback", "service cutback", "devaluation", "devitalization", "devitalisation", "evisceration", "extenuation", "palliation", "spasmolysis", "easing", "easement", "alleviation", "relief", "de-escalation", "detente", "liberalization", "liberalisation", "relaxation", "minimization", "minimisation", "depletion", "exhaustion", "decompression", "decompressing" ], "aliasCount": 90, "merged": 64, "knownIn": 0, "facets": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "not-applicable", "scale": "not-applicable", "affordances": [ "observable" ] }, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "noun.act", "senseRank": 3, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "oewn:2024", "synset": "oewn-00352464-n", "ili": "i37258", "license": "CC BY 4.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:32:06Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01013982, "turns": 1, "seconds": 115.1, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 78.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b31-e37a-79c3-9960-9ea765f61d4e\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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"scope_statement": "This model owns the act of making a specified quantity, degree or extent lower, including its target, comparison basis, intended reduction, intervention, constraints and evidenced outcome.", "in_scope": [ "The actor, affected target and dimension being reduced", "The baseline, scale and comparison conditions that make lower meaningful", "The intended endpoint, reduction amount, rate and time horizon", "The intervention used to produce the decrease and its execution state", "Evidence of achieved reduction, unintended effects and attribution", "Limits and conditions for continuing, stopping or restoring what was reduced" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The full identity and lifecycle of the object being reduced", "A downward change with no identified act producing it", "The standing condition of being low or insufficient", "A measurement activity whose purpose is only to observe a quantity", "Complete removal or destruction as an independently specified act", "The broader plan or policy within which a decrease is one intervention" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A decrease act identifies an intervention directed at an affected dimension; a lower observation alone establishes a change, not an act.", "Its intended direction is lower on a stated scale; a failed attempt can still be a decrease act even when the measured outcome is unchanged or higher.", "The decrease must hold under comparable reference conditions; changing units or redefining the denominator alone does not establish that the target was reduced.", "Decreasing a growth rate does not establish a decrease in the underlying stock, which may continue to rise.", "An absolute decrease requires a value below its baseline; a value below an expected counterfactual can establish an avoided increase while remaining above baseline." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Affected dimension", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Target entity linked to a specified quantity, degree or extent", "why_it_matters": "An act may reduce one property while increasing another." }, { "name": "Reduction basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Stock, flow, rate, proportion, count or ordered degree", "why_it_matters": "Determines what a lower value means and which comparisons are valid." }, { "name": "Baseline", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Value or ordered level with unit or scale, reference time and measurement conditions", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the reference against which a reduction can be judged." }, { "name": "Intended endpoint", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Target value, interval or ordered level on the affected dimension", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes sufficient reduction from partial progress or overshoot." }, { "name": "Reduction magnitude", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Baseline minus comparison value in native units; percentage only with an explicit valid denominator", "why_it_matters": "Expresses how much was intended or achieved without confusing absolute and relative changes." }, { "name": "Reduction pace", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Native units per time interval, or ordered stages with deadlines", "why_it_matters": "A safe or useful endpoint may require a constrained path to reach it." }, { "name": "Execution state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed, authorised, underway, paused, completed, stopped or failed", "why_it_matters": "Separates what has been attempted from what remains actionable." }, { "name": "Outcome assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not assessed, inconclusive, no reduction, partial reduction, target reached, overshot or rebounded", "why_it_matters": "Prevents completion of an intervention from being mistaken for successful reduction." }, { "name": "Minimum acceptable level", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Lower bound or protected interval on the affected dimension, if applicable", "why_it_matters": "Determines when further reduction becomes unacceptable." }, { "name": "Restoration feasibility", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Fully restorable, partly restorable, irreversible or unknown under stated conditions", "why_it_matters": "Constrains intervention size and responses to excessive reduction." } ], "affordances": [ "Specify a decrease against a comparable baseline and explicit affected dimension", "Assess whether a proposed intervention can reach the target within permitted limits", "Initiate or stage an authorised reduction and monitor its pace", "Adjust, pause or stop reduction when the endpoint, lower bound or collateral limit is reached", "Verify the achieved decrease and distinguish intervention effects from other changes", "Assess rebound and initiate authorised restoration when feasible" ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wordnet-decrease-n-act", "title": "WordNet 3.1 entry for decrease (noun.act): \"the act of decreasing or reducing something\"", "url": "https://wordnet.princeton.edu/", "what_it_supports": "Establishes the act-sense as a named lexical concept distinct from the amount-of-decrease and the downward-change event senses.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "iso-80000-1", "title": "ISO 80000-1, Quantities and units - Part 1: General", "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/76921.html", "what_it_supports": "How differences and relative differences of quantities are to be written, which is the metrological form of a decrease.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "jcgm-200-vim", "title": "JCGM 200, International vocabulary of metrology - Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM)", "url": "https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/jc/jcgm/publications", "what_it_supports": "Vocabulary for quantity, value and measurement against which any claimed decrease must be stated.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "sna-2008", "title": "System of National Accounts 2008", "url": "https://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/sna2008.asp", "what_it_supports": "How economic stock decreases (consumption of fixed capital, inventory drawdown, other volume changes) are recorded as distinct from price falls.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "reduction-target-and-comparison", "name": "Reduction target and comparison", "description": "Establishes precisely what is to become lower and how that claim can be evaluated.", "rationale": "A decrease is ambiguous until its affected dimension and comparison basis are fixed.", "layers": [ { "id": "affected-dimension", "name": "Affected dimension", "description": "Identifies the property reduced and the boundary within which it is counted.", "findings": [ { "id": "quantity-selected-for-reduction", "name": "Quantity selected for reduction", "description": "Records the target property, scale and aggregation boundary without treating every property of the target as decreasing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which entity and dimension does this act seek to make lower?", "kind": "definition", "id": "quantity-selected-for-reduction-q01" }, { "text": "Does the target concern a stock, flow, rate, proportion, count or ordered degree, and over what boundary?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "quantity-selected-for-reduction-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "comparable-reference", "name": "Comparable reference", "description": "Defines the baseline and conditions needed to compare before and after.", "findings": [ { "id": "baseline-and-scale-validity", "name": "Baseline and scale validity", "description": "Records the reference value and checks whether changes in units, membership, denominator or observation conditions affect the comparison.", "questions": [ { "text": "What baseline value or level is used, and where did it come from?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "baseline-and-scale-validity-q01" }, { "text": "Are the baseline and outcome comparable in scale, denominator, population and observation interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "baseline-and-scale-validity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "intended-reduction", "name": "Intended reduction", "description": "Defines how far and how quickly the act is intended to lower its target.", "rationale": "Direction alone cannot establish whether a decrease is sufficient, excessive or timely.", "layers": [ { "id": "endpoint-and-magnitude", "name": "Endpoint and magnitude", "description": "Expresses the intended reduction as an endpoint or a change from a stated reference.", "findings": [ { "id": "desired-lower-level", "name": "Desired lower level", "description": "Records a target value, interval or ordered level, preserving distinctions between absolute and relative reduction.", "questions": [ { "text": "What lower value, interval or level would satisfy the intended decrease?", "kind": "definition", "id": "desired-lower-level-q01" }, { "text": "Is the requested change expressed in native units, percent, percentage points or ordinal steps?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "desired-lower-level-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pace-and-duration", "name": "Pace and duration", "description": "Describes the intended path to the endpoint and how long it should hold.", "findings": [ { "id": "reduction-trajectory", "name": "Reduction trajectory", "description": "Records deadlines, stages, pace limits and any requirement to sustain the lower level.", "questions": [ { "text": "By when must the decrease occur, and for how long must the lower level persist?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reduction-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "Must the reduction be gradual, staged or monotonic, or are temporary increases acceptable?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reduction-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "decreasing-intervention", "name": "Decreasing intervention", "description": "Connects the intended decrease to an actor and a concrete intervention.", "rationale": "Recognising an act requires identifying what is done to produce reduction, beyond observing a downward trend.", "layers": [ { "id": "intervention-mechanism", "name": "Intervention mechanism", "description": "Identifies how the actor expects to lower the selected dimension.", "findings": [ { "id": "means-of-lowering", "name": "Means of lowering", "description": "Records the intervention and its proposed causal connection to the target, such as removing stock, limiting inflow or lowering a setting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who acts, what do they change, and how is that expected to lower the target dimension?", "kind": "action", "id": "means-of-lowering-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence or reasoning supports that expected connection?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "means-of-lowering-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "execution-and-adjustment", "name": "Execution and adjustment", "description": "Tracks the intervention performed and the remaining opportunities to control its effect.", "findings": [ { "id": "applied-reduction-step", "name": "Applied reduction step", "description": "Records which reduction steps have occurred, their execution state and the next available adjustment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reduction steps have actually been applied, at what times and to what extent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applied-reduction-step-q01" }, { "text": "What next reduction step or adjustment is authorised given the current state?", "kind": "action", "id": "applied-reduction-step-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reduction-limits-and-recovery", "name": "Reduction limits and recovery", "description": "Defines how much reduction is permissible and how excessive reduction can be handled.", "rationale": "Making a quantity lower can cross a minimum, impair dependent functions or consume something that cannot be restored.", "layers": [ { "id": "floors-and-protected-effects", "name": "Floors and protected effects", "description": "Records lower bounds and consequences that constrain further reduction.", "findings": [ { "id": "permissible-reduction-envelope", "name": "Permissible reduction envelope", "description": "Identifies target floors and protected dependent quantities or functions that the decrease must respect.", "questions": [ { "text": "What minimum level must remain, and under which conditions does that limit apply?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permissible-reduction-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Which dependent quantities or functions could become unacceptable as the target falls?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permissible-reduction-envelope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stopping-and-restoration", "name": "Stopping and restoration", "description": "Defines responses to excessive reduction, including effects that continue after intervention stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "overshoot-response", "name": "Overshoot response", "description": "Records stop conditions, delayed effects and feasible restoration after the target falls too far.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observation should trigger slowing, pausing or stopping, accounting for any continuing effect after stopping?", "kind": "action", "id": "overshoot-response-q01" }, { "text": "If the target falls too far, what can be restored, by whom and within what time?", "kind": "action", "id": "overshoot-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "achieved-reduction-and-attribution", "name": "Achieved reduction and attribution", "description": "Assesses whether the target became lower, whether the act contributed and whether the result persists.", "rationale": "An executed decrease act can fail, coincide with unrelated decline or produce a temporary reduction that rebounds.", "layers": [ { "id": "observed-result", "name": "Observed result", "description": "Compares the measured outcome with the baseline and intended endpoint.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-lowering", "name": "Verified lowering", "description": "Records the observed change, uncertainty and degree of target attainment without assuming execution implies success.", "questions": [ { "text": "How much lower is the outcome than the comparable baseline, and how uncertain is that difference?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verified-lowering-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence show no reduction, partial attainment, target attainment or overshoot?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verified-lowering-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "causal-contribution-and-persistence", "name": "Causal contribution and persistence", "description": "Separates observed decline from attributed effect and assesses the durability of the lower level.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributable-and-sustained-effect", "name": "Attributable and sustained effect", "description": "Records evidence linking the intervention to reduction, alternative explanations and follow-up observations of rebound.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports attributing the decrease to this act rather than background change, measurement changes or another intervention?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributable-and-sustained-effect-q01" }, { "text": "Does follow-up show a sustained lower level, rebound or displacement of the quantity outside the measured boundary?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attributable-and-sustained-effect-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "absolute decrease (a fixed amount subtracted from the prior value)", "relative or percentage decrease (change expressed as a fraction of a stated base)", "discrete decrement (integer step-down of a counter or stock)", "continuous or smooth decline of a real-valued quantity", "step decrease (near-instant drop) versus ramp or tapered decrease", "exponential or decay-type decrease (rate proportional to the current value)", "intentional reduction (an agent cuts a budget, dose, set-point, headcount or emission)", "uncontrolled decline (demand, performance, population or condition falling without a directing agent)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of decrease this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "WordNet 3.1 sense key", "value_or_pattern": "decrease%1:04:00::", "note": "Noun.act sense whose gloss is \"the act of 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standards and regulation hold for the sense of decrease this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "A clinician tapers a daily dose so that exposure falls over days or weeks rather than stopping at once.", "A process controller lowers a set-point (temperature, speed, pressure) as a ramp or a step.", "A finance team cuts a budget line or records inventory drawdown.", "A statistical office reports that employment, prices or emissions are lower than in a stated prior period.", "A programmer decrements a loop counter or a remaining-quota integer.", "An emissions or energy programme reduces a measured annual total against a base year." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of decrease this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "absolute change (later value minus baseline)", "typical_range": "from a small fraction of the quantity's span down to the full prior value (complete drawdown)", "unit": "same unit as the quantity" }, { "quantity": "relative decrease", "typical_range": "0-1 as a fraction; commonly 0-100 as a percentage of the stated base", "unit": "1 or %" }, { "quantity": "rate of decrease", "typical_range": "domain-dependent; from near-zero drift to a near-step collapse", "unit": "quantity unit per time" }, { "quantity": "duration of the decrease", "typical_range": "milliseconds (control step) to years (demographic or capital-stock decline)", "unit": "s" }, { "quantity": "half-life or e-folding time (exponential decrease)", "typical_range": "process-specific; seconds in circuits to millennia in some decays", "unit": "s" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of decrease this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Overshoot: the quantity is driven below a safe or intended floor (hypoglycaemia after dose decrease, stockout after inventory cut).", "Rebound: a compensatory rise follows the decrease (rebound hypertension, demand snap-back).", "Apparent decrease: a change of instrument, definition or base year looks like a real fall.", "Percent versus percentage-point confusion: a fall of 2 points from 10% is reported as a 2% decrease.", "Uneven decrease: the cut lands on one part of a system and creates shortage, instability or inequity.", "Irreversible decrease: recovery was needed and is no longer possible (data loss, extinction, lost skill)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of decrease this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "UN, EU and UK policy English often uses \"reduction\" for agentive cuts (emissions reduction, poverty reduction) and keeps \"decrease\" for observed statistical change; US usage mixes the two more freely.", "Official statistics offices differ on whether change must be stated as a percent of a named base or as percentage points; mixing the two is a recurring reporting fault.", "In computing, English prefers \"decrement\" for a unit step-down; many other languages use the ordinary word for decrease." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of decrease this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "increase", "difference": "The opposite directed change: the later value is larger, not smaller, than the baseline." }, { "name": "decrement", "difference": "Usually a unit, integer step-down of a discrete counter; decrease covers continuous and non-unit falls as well." }, { "name": "reduction (chemistry)", "difference": "Gain of electrons or lowering of oxidation state, not merely a smaller magnitude; test is whether redox state changed." }, { "name": "decay", "difference": "Decrease that follows a specified law (often exponential) tied to an internal process; a decrease need not have that law." }, { "name": "attenuation", "difference": "Fall of wave or signal amplitude in a medium or path; not a general fall of any quantity." }, { "name": "depreciation", "difference": "Accounting allocation of an asset's cost over time; it need not equal market-value decrease." }, { "name": "subtraction", "difference": "The arithmetic operation that computes a difference; decrease is the worldly or process change, not the calculation." }, { "name": "decline (unplanned)", "difference": "Often reserved for unforced falling-off; decrease also covers deliberate cuts. Test: was there a directing agent?" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of decrease this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend decrease to include acts that unintentionally lower a quantity, or only acts directed toward lowering it?", "Where should this model hand off to removal, elimination or destruction when the intended endpoint is zero or absence?", "Should a reduction relative only to a counterfactual be classified here, or primarily as prevention of an increase?", "Which qualitative scales provide enough ordering to support a defensible decrease claim without a numerical magnitude?", "How should repeated adjustments be grouped into one decrease act versus several independently assessable acts?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a decrease, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "the act of decreasing or reducing something", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: diminution, reduction, step-down, cut, budget cut, pay cut, salary cut, cost cutting, price cutting, price cut, spending cut, tax cut.", "64 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a decrease, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "diminution", "reduction", "step-down", "cut", "budget cut", "pay cut", "salary cut", "cost cutting", "price cutting", "price cut", "spending cut", "tax cut" ] } ], "standing": "64 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one decrease from another, and a decrease from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a decrease sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a decrease from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a decrease passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a decrease between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a decrease, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a decrease is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a decrease proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a decrease, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a decrease and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a decrease consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a decrease takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What decrease is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of decrease are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is decrease operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of decrease and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of decrease?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as decrease?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a decrease came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a decrease and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a decrease is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a decrease, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a decrease, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a decrease is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }