increase
Let an agent explain increase as a general process, relay how increases are measured and modelled from mathematical and scientific sources, describe kinds such as accretion and accumulation, and distinguish increase from growth as a biological process, from the noun sense of an amount added and from specific processes with their own entries.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What increase is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is increase as a process, and how does it differ from growth, from the amount added and from decrease? definition
- Is the question about the general process, a kind or a specific domain? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What are accession, accretion, accumulation, buildup and deposition? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Measure Measurement and models.
Rates
Rates.
Rates
Rates.
- How are increases measured as differences, percentages and rates? measurement
- Which references are standard? provenance
Models
Models.
Models
Models.
- How do linear, exponential and logistic models describe increase? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Domains Domains.
Nature
Nature.
Nature
Nature.
- How do accretion and deposition build sediments, planets and organisms? provenance
- Which entry fits accretion? action
Society
Society and economy.
Society
Society.
- How are population, economic and capital increases analysed? provenance
- Which entry fits economic growth? action
Context Language and lexicon.
Language
Language.
Language
Language.
- How is increase expressed in language, and what is the noun sense? provenance
- Which entry fits the noun sense of increase? action
Lexicon
WordNet grouping.
Lexicon
Lexicon.
- How does WordNet group processes of increase, and which aliases fit poorly? provenance
- Which entry fits WordNet? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- noun.process
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.PRC
- Facets: substance
- activity
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- accession, accretion, accumulation, backup, buildup, deposition, deposit, doubling, electrodeposition, increment, growth, multiplication
What it is Filled
A process of becoming larger, longer, more numerous or more important, in the WordNet sense that groups processes such as accession, accretion, accumulation, buildup and deposition, whether of matter such as sediment, of quantities such as population or capital, or of significance; increase is the general counterpart of decrease and is described by growth rates, differences and trends.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain increase as a general process, relay how increases are measured and modelled from mathematical and scientific sources, describe kinds such as accretion and accumulation, and distinguish increase from growth as a biological process, from the noun sense of an amount added and from specific processes with their own entries.
Distinguishing features Filled
- General process
- Quantitative and qualitative
- Measured by rates
- Many named kinds
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Report a percentage increase without its baseline.
- Present an increase from a cherry-picked starting point as a trend.
- Attribute a cause to an increase without evidence.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing figures on increases in prices, crime or disease that will guide public decisions.
May
- Describe and measure an increase with its baseline, period and unit.
- Distinguish absolute from relative increase.
- Distinguish this general sense from specific processes such as accretion or growth.
Moral aspects Filled
- How increases are framed can alarm people or hide real problems.
- Misleading growth figures can drive bad policy.
Who is affected
- The public reading the figures
- People affected by the decisions
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; whoever reports a change answers for its accuracy.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-00029976-n - registry parent class
related
- process - in general terms
- decrease - the opposite process
- growth rate - over time
- accumulation - as a kind of increase
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.increase
- Open English WordNet: oewn-13518338-n
- WordNet: oewn-00029976-n a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- linear increase: constant difference note
- exponential increase: constant ratio note
- doubling time: about 70 divided by percent rate note - rule of 70
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Process of becoming larger or more
- Accession, accretion, accumulation, buildup, deposition
- Growth often means biological development; the noun increase is the amount added; backup as an alias is a stray sense
- Not a visible object; a rising trend.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept
- relay measurement and modelling
- describe kinds
- distinguish related concepts
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing linear and exponential increase
- Confusing process and amount senses
- WordNet aliases such as backup that fit poorly
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- No regulation
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a general process.
- accumulation and buildup
- accretion and deposition of matter
- accession of territory or holdings
- population and economic increase
- increase in importance or intensity
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13518338-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: increase - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should accumulation and accretion be the primary linked entries?
- How should mathematical sources be linked?
- The WordNet aliases include backup, which appears misfiled; should it be reviewed?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-increase/spec.json