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"Starting; active; modulating; stopping; interrupted; completed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an ongoing act from available capability or a command that has not produced force." }, { "name": "Energy input", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "J per episode or W over a stated interval, with the energy boundary identified", "why_it_matters": "Supports endurance and resource assessments without conflating stored energy with delivered mechanical energy." }, { "name": "Velocity of the propelled system", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Vector in m/s relative to a specified frame or medium", "why_it_matters": "Connects propulsion to motion while making frame-dependent performance measures interpretable." }, { "name": "Propulsion performance measure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Named measure with units, calculation, operating point and system boundary", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparisons only when quantities such as efficiency, impulse or energy 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"Which participant supplies the driving action, and is it internal or external to that boundary?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "propelled-body-and-propelling-participant-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-and-force-role", "name": "Episode and force role", "description": "Distinguishes active propulsion from capability, coasting and other force-producing activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-of-active-propulsion", "name": "Evidence of active propulsion", "description": "Record the observations and adopted criterion that establish the start, continuation and end of propulsion, including its relationship to braking or steering.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed interaction establishes that propulsion is active, and what marks its start and end?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-of-active-propulsion-q01" }, { "text": "When the same mechanism drives, steers or brakes, which criterion assigns its role during this interval?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-of-active-propulsion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "driving-interaction", "name": "Driving interaction", "description": "Explains how driving force is generated and transferred to the propelled system.", "rationale": "The interaction distinguishes propulsion mechanisms and identifies dependencies that a device name alone cannot establish.", "layers": [ { "id": "interaction-partner", "name": "Interaction partner", "description": "Identifies the surface, medium, expelled material or other system participating in force transfer.", "findings": [ { "id": "force-transfer-path", "name": "Force-transfer path", "description": "Record how the mechanism exchanges momentum with its surroundings or another body, including the physical conditions required for that interaction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Through what contact, medium, expelled material or other specified interaction is the driving force produced?", "kind": "definition", "id": "force-transfer-path-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations or technical account support the identified force-transfer path?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "force-transfer-path-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "force-application", "name": "Force application", "description": "Characterises the magnitude, direction, location and temporal pattern of the driving force.", "findings": [ { "id": "applied-driving-force", "name": "Applied driving force", "description": "Record the propulsion force separately from resultant force, with enough spatial and temporal detail to interpret its motion effects.", "questions": [ { "text": "What driving-force vector is applied, at what location, and in which reference frame?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "applied-driving-force-q01" }, { "text": "Is force continuous or intermittent, and what interval supports any reported average or impulse?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "applied-driving-force-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "energy-and-expenditure", "name": "Energy and expenditure", "description": "Connects the 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"comparable-performance-measure-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "propulsion-control-and-limits", "name": "Propulsion control and limits", "description": "Describes how propulsion can be changed and what constrains those changes.", "rationale": "Available commands do not guarantee delivered force; action selection requires the response and limits of the actual driving interaction.", "layers": [ { "id": "command-to-force-response", "name": "Command-to-force response", "description": "Links controllable inputs to changes in propulsion magnitude, direction and timing.", "findings": [ { "id": "available-propulsion-adjustments", "name": "Available propulsion adjustments", "description": "Record the inputs that alter propulsion and the observed or supported response, including delays and limits on the rate of change.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inputs can start, stop, increase, reduce or redirect the driving force?", "kind": "action", "id": "available-propulsion-adjustments-q01" }, { "text": "What delay, rate limit or variability separates an input change from delivered force?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "available-propulsion-adjustments-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interaction-and-equipment-limits", "name": "Interaction and equipment limits", "description": "Identifies constraints imposed by the force-transfer interaction, the performer and current conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "feasible-driving-envelope", "name": "Feasible driving envelope", "description": "Record applicable constraints such as available traction, medium conditions, power, temperature or fatigue, together with evidence that a limit is approaching.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current conditions limit the magnitude, direction or duration of propulsion?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "feasible-driving-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports each operating limit and indicates whether it has been reached?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "feasible-driving-envelope-q02" }, { "text": 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"id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a propulsion 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 propulsion 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion 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 propulsion from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a propulsion, 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion 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 propulsion 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 propulsion between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a propulsion, 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion 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 propulsion, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a propulsion 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion 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 propulsion 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a propulsion, 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion 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 propulsion consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a propulsion 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion 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 propulsion 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 propulsion 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 propulsion 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 propulsion 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 propulsion?", "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 propulsion?", "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 propulsion 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 propulsion and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a propulsion, 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion 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 propulsion is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a propulsion, 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 propulsion, 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 propulsion 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 } } } }