nature
Let an agent explain nature as personal character, relay how psychology and philosophy describe temperament and personality with attribution, describe related attributes such as outwardness and inwardness, and distinguish this sense from nature as the natural world, from personality traits as measured and from spiritualism and spiritism.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What nature means here.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a person s nature in this sense, and how does it differ from the natural world, measured traits and spiritism? definition
- Is the question about character, psychology, another sense of nature or a misfiled alias? boundary
Attributes
Related attributes.
Attributes
Attributes.
- What do outwardness, inwardness and internality mean? definition
- Which entry fits the specific attribute? action
Psychology Psychology.
Temperament
Temperament.
Temperament
Temperament.
- How do psychologists describe temperament and personality, with models attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Nature and nurture
Nature and nurture.
Nature and nurture
Nature and nurture.
- What does research say about genetic and environmental influences on character, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Philosophy Philosophy.
Human nature
Human nature.
Human nature
Human nature.
- How do philosophers debate human nature and individual character, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits human nature? action
Virtue
Character and virtue.
Virtue
Virtue.
- How does virtue ethics treat character? provenance
- Which entry fits virtue ethics? action
Context Registry note.
Aliases
Misfiled aliases.
Aliases
Aliases.
- Why are spirituality, spiritualism and spiritism separate senses, and where are they covered, presented respectfully? provenance
- Which entry fits each? action
Language
Language.
Language
Language.
- How are the senses of nature distinguished in dictionaries? provenance
- Which entry fits nature (natural world)? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- noun.attribute
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.QLT
- Facets: substance
- abstract
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- outwardness, inwardness, internality, spirituality, spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness, extraversion, extroversion, introversion, ambiversion, aloneness
What it is Filled
In the WordNet sense, the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person s characteristic actions and reactions, a person s nature or temperament; the registry aliases outwardness, inwardness and internality are WordNet attributes related to personality, while spirituality, spiritualism and spiritism name religious and metaphysical concepts that are separate senses and appear misfiled.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain nature as personal character, relay how psychology and philosophy describe temperament and personality with attribution, describe related attributes such as outwardness and inwardness, and distinguish this sense from nature as the natural world, from personality traits as measured and from spiritualism and spiritism.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Personal character
- Temperament
- Distinct from natural world
- Misfiled aliases
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Describe a real person's nature as fixed or as destiny from limited evidence.
- Use claims about someone's nature to justify discrimination or exclusion.
- Merge this sense with nature as the natural world or with religious concepts.
- Present a personality judgment about a person as a diagnosis.
Only with a human decision
- Recording a judgment about an identifiable person's character in a file used for decisions.
May
- Explain nature as a person's temperament, citing psychology and philosophy with attribution.
- Note that the aliases on spirituality and spiritism are separate senses.
Moral aspects Filled
- Labels about a person's nature can stigmatize and follow them for life.
- Character judgments are easily biased by culture, gender and class.
Who is affected
- People whose character is judged
- Readers relying on the description
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; each person is the first authority on their own character.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-04623416-n - registry parent class
related
- trait - in WordNet terms
- personality psychology
- nature - as the natural world
- spiritism - a misfiled alias
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.nature-attribute
- Open English WordNet: oewn-04630470-n
- WordNet: oewn-04623416-n the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- WordNet hypernym: trait note
- Big Five model: five personality dimensions note - psychology
- spiritism: Allan Kardec, 1857 note - separate sense
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- A person s characteristic temperament
- Outwardness, inwardness, internality; spirituality, spiritualism and spiritism as separate senses
- The natural world is another sense; measured traits are a scientific construct; spiritism is a religious movement
- Not a visible object; a character.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the sense
- relay psychological views
- describe related attributes
- distinguish other senses
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Registry aliases attached in error
- Treating temperament as fixed destiny
- Confusing senses of nature
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- No regulation
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a personal attribute.
- temperament
- character
- introversion and extraversion as related attributes
- inwardness and outwardness
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-04630470-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: nature - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should spirituality, spiritualism and spiritism be detached?
- How should psychology sources be linked?
- The registry aliases spirituality, spiritualism and spiritism are separate senses and should be detached
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-nature-attribute/spec.json