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in biblical law the name denotes the 14 Nisan paschal offering, later fused with the seven-day Festival of Unleavened Bread.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Passover as a Jewish festival observance and its situated occurrences, connecting calendar boundaries, remembrance of the Exodus, seder practice, food preparation and observance commitments without imposing a single community's rules.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of an occurrence as Passover and its relationship to the annual festival", "Locally applicable festival dates, day boundaries and phases", "Seder arrangements, narrative participation and ritual readiness", "Passover-specific food standards and handling of chametz", "Participants' adopted customs, observance commitments and unresolved decisions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Historical reconstruction of the Exodus and adjudication of its historicity", "Judaism as a religion or a complete model of Jewish law", "General household inventory, catering operations and food-safety management", "Synagogue administration and year-round worship scheduling", "Independent Christian commemorations or other events using Passover terminology", "General travel, employment and school-calendar management" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The occurrence is explicitly identified as Jewish Passover or Pesach; a shared date or the word Passover alone is insufficient.", "The observance connects its identity to remembrance and transmission of the Exodus, rather than merely being a seasonal communal meal.", "The model distinguishes the festival from an individual seder: a seder may belong to a Passover occurrence without exhausting its scope.", "Matzah, chametz-related commitments and seder practices are recorded as Passover-specific dimensions, while omissions or adaptations do not automatically invalidate identification.", "Dates and practice are established from the participants' location, community and adopted authority rather than inferred solely from a generic holiday calendar." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Occurrence identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Registered Passover concept, occurrence year and observing household or community", "why_it_matters": "Separates the recurring festival from a particular observance and prevents duplicate occurrence records." }, { "name": "Practice basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Participant-declared community, custom, guidance source and unresolved alternatives", "why_it_matters": "Establishes which expectations can be used to judge readiness and appropriate action." }, { "name": "Local festival interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Start and end timestamps with timezone, locality and calendar source", "why_it_matters": "Supports phase transitions and prevents a civil-date label from being treated as a complete observance boundary." }, { "name": "Observance phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Preparation, festival underway, concluded, or unresolved; with locally defined subphases", "why_it_matters": "Makes preparation deadlines and phase-dependent actions assessable." }, { "name": "Seder arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Planned seder occasions, hosted or attended, adapted, not planned, or undecided", "why_it_matters": "Avoids assuming a fixed number of seders or that every participant hosts one." }, { "name": "Chametz preparation status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, planned, in progress, complete against declared requirements, or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Tracks preparation without claiming that completion under one practice establishes compliance under another." }, { "name": "Food acceptance basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared ingredient, certification, preparation and community-custom criteria", "why_it_matters": "Makes Passover suitability a supported judgment rather than a label inferred from ordinary dietary suitability." }, { "name": "Participation requirements", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Participants linked to language, accessibility, dietary and ritual participation needs", "why_it_matters": "Supports workable arrangements while preserving decisions that belong to participants or their advisers." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a Passover occurrence's local calendar boundaries and produce a source-linked preparation schedule.", "Assess seder readiness against the host's chosen Haggadah, customs and participant requirements.", "Identify unresolved chametz and food-suitability decisions and route them to the designated decision-maker.", "Coordinate invitations, materials and contributions for explicitly identified seder occasions.", "Detect conflicts between proposed activities and participants' declared observance commitments.", "Record completed preparation, adaptations and outstanding questions without presenting an agent's inference as religious authority." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "exod-12", "title": "Exodus 12; Leviticus 23:4-8; Deuteronomy 16:1-8. Hebrew Bible", "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.12", "what_it_supports": "Biblical law of the paschal offering, blood on the doorposts, unleavened bread, and the pilgrimage date in Nisan.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "mishnah-pesachim", "title": "Mishnah, tractate Pesachim. Rabbinic corpus (Sefaria edition)", "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Pesachim", "what_it_supports": "Rabbinic structure of chametz search and destruction, the offering, and the seder sequence that later Judaism still uses.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "sa-oc-pesach", "title": "Joseph Karo, Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim §§429-494. Standard halakhic code", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Normative rules for Passover preparation, kitniyot as custom, seder cups and matzah quantities, and the seven- versus eight-day calendar." }, { "id": "judaica-passover", "title": "Passover. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. Macmillan Reference / Keter", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Historical fusion of Pesach with Chag HaMatzot, Temple versus home rite, and major communal variants." }, { "id": "britannica-passover", "title": "Passover. Encyclopædia Britannica", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/Passover", "what_it_supports": "Public definition, date in Nisan, seder elements, and the relationship to Easter/Pascha.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikidata-q41980", "title": "Passover (Q41980). Wikidata", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41980", "what_it_supports": "Stable item identifier and cross-language labels for the festival.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "festival-identity-and-practice", "name": "Festival identity and practice", "description": "Establishes what is being observed and whose practice governs the occurrence.", "rationale": "Passover cannot be recognised or assessed reliably through its name alone, and practice differences must remain attributable.", "layers": [ { "id": "festival-and-occurrence", "name": "Festival and occurrence", "description": "Connects the registered festival to a particular household or community observance.", "findings": [ { "id": "passover-identification", "name": "Passover identification", "description": "Records the participants' identification of the observance and distinguishes its overall scope from associated meals or services.", "questions": [ { "text": "What establishes this occurrence as Jewish Passover or Pesach?", "kind": "definition", "id": "passover-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Does this record represent the whole festival observance, a seder within it, or another associated activity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "passover-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adopted-practice", "name": "Adopted practice", "description": "Makes community customs and decision authority explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "practice-and-decision-basis", "name": "Practice and decision basis", "description": "Records declared customs, their supporting guidance and who resolves differences among participants.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community customs and guidance sources have the participants chosen for this Passover?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "practice-and-decision-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Who should resolve a disagreement about a Passover requirement or a proposed adaptation?", "kind": "action", "id": "practice-and-decision-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "calendar-and-festival-phases", "name": "Calendar and festival phases", "description": "Locates the observance in time and distinguishes phases relevant to preparation and conduct.", "rationale": "An agent needs local boundaries and adopted calendar practice to determine what is due or currently applicable.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-calendar-resolution", "name": "Local calendar resolution", "description": "Resolves festival dates and times for the actual place and practice of observance.", "findings": [ { "id": "festival-boundaries", "name": "Festival boundaries", "description": "Records the applicable interval, locality and calendar evidence, including any travel-related uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What local start and end times apply to this occurrence, and which calendar source supplies them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "festival-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Do location, adopted practice or travel create uncertainty about the festival's duration or applicable boundaries?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "festival-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "phase-dependent-preparation", "name": "Phase-dependent preparation", "description": "Connects preparation and observance commitments to their applicable festival phases.", "findings": [ { "id": "passover-deadlines-and-transitions", "name": "Passover deadlines and transitions", "description": "Tracks relevant preparation deadlines and transitions between days with differing declared commitments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which deadlines apply to chametz preparation, seder preparation and other adopted pre-festival practices?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "passover-deadlines-and-transitions-q01" }, { "text": "Which pending actions require attention before the next locally applicable festival boundary?", "kind": "action", "id": "passover-deadlines-and-transitions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seder-and-exodus-transmission", "name": "Seder and Exodus transmission", "description": "Models seder occasions as structured opportunities for ritual participation and transmission of the Exodus narrative.", "rationale": "Meal logistics alone cannot establish whether the intended seder experience is ready or accessible.", "layers": [ { "id": "seder-structure-and-materials", "name": "Seder structure and materials", "description": "Connects planned seder occasions to their chosen texts, ritual sequence and materials.", "findings": [ { "id": "chosen-seder-practice", "name": "Chosen seder practice", "description": "Records the Haggadah or other declared guide and derives preparation needs from that choice.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which seder occasions are planned, and which Haggadah, language and customs will guide each?", "kind": "definition", "id": "chosen-seder-practice-q01" }, { "text": "Which ritual foods, objects and texts are required by that plan, and which remain unavailable or unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "chosen-seder-practice-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "narrative-and-participation", "name": "Narrative and participation", "description": "Supports questioning, storytelling and meaningful participation in the seder.", "findings": [ { "id": "accessible-exodus-retelling", "name": "Accessible Exodus retelling", "description": "Records how participants will engage with the Exodus narrative and how participation barriers will be addressed.", "questions": [ { "text": "How will this seder make room for retelling the Exodus, asking questions and discussing its meaning?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accessible-exodus-retelling-q01" }, { "text": "What language, age-related or accessibility adaptations do participants request, and who will prepare them?", "kind": "action", "id": "accessible-exodus-retelling-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "chametz-and-passover-food", "name": "Chametz and Passover food", "description": "Records Passover-specific decisions about chametz, food acceptance and preparation spaces.", "rationale": "Food readiness depends on declared standards, evidence and completed actions that ordinary menu records do not capture.", "layers": [ { "id": "chametz-handling", "name": "Chametz handling", "description": "Tracks the scope and status of adopted chametz-related preparation.", "findings": [ { "id": "chametz-preparation-account", "name": "Chametz preparation account", "description": "Records relevant spaces and items, intended handling and evidence that the chosen preparation was completed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which spaces and possessions fall within the participants' adopted chametz preparation responsibilities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "chametz-preparation-account-q01" }, { "text": "Which search, removal, disposal, sale or other handling steps are adopted, and what confirms their completion?", "kind": "action", "id": "chametz-preparation-account-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "food-and-kitchen-acceptance", "name": "Food and kitchen acceptance", "description": "Connects ingredients, prepared food and kitchen use to explicit Passover acceptance criteria.", "findings": [ { "id": "passover-suitability-decisions", "name": "Passover suitability decisions", "description": "Records the basis for accepting matzah, other foods, utensils and preparation arrangements, including differing customs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What guidance or certification supports acceptance of the planned foods and kitchen arrangements for these participants?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "passover-suitability-decisions-q01" }, { "text": "Which choices involving matzah, kitniyot, utensils or shared preparation remain disputed or undecided?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "passover-suitability-decisions-q02" }, { "text": "What menu or preparation changes are needed to meet the participants' declared standards and dietary requirements?", "kind": "action", "id": "passover-suitability-decisions-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observance-commitments-and-coordination", "name": "Observance commitments and coordination", "description": "Connects Passover commitments to practical participation, scheduling and authorised assistance.", "rationale": "The agent must distinguish what participants intend to observe from what it may arrange or decide on their behalf.", "layers": [ { "id": "day-specific-commitments", "name": "Day-specific commitments", "description": "Records adopted worship and activity commitments for the different days of the festival.", "findings": [ { "id": "observance-and-schedule-fit", "name": "Observance and schedule fit", "description": "Identifies conflicts between planned activities and participants' declared festival-day practices.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which prayer, gathering, work, travel or technology commitments do participants adopt on each festival day?", "kind": "definition", "id": "observance-and-schedule-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed activities conflict with those commitments and require rescheduling or participant review?", "kind": "action", "id": "observance-and-schedule-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "hosting-and-participant-agency", "name": "Hosting and participant agency", "description": "Coordinates attendance and contributions while preserving participant control over religious decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "participation-and-assistance-boundaries", "name": "Participation and assistance boundaries", "description": "Records hosting arrangements, guest needs and the decisions an agent is authorised to execute.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is hosting or attending each seder, and what food contributions or participation needs require agreement beforehand?", "kind": "action", "id": "participation-and-assistance-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Which arrangements may the agent make directly, and which religious or custom-sensitive decisions require a named person's judgment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "participation-and-assistance-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and 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lambs still offered on Mount Gerizim)", "Karaite Passover (non-rabbinic lunar calendar and rules)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Passover 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": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q41980", "note": "Item for the Jewish festival Passover / Pesach." }, { "scheme": "Library of Congress Subject Headings", "value_or_pattern": "Passover", "note": "Authorized heading; related headings include Seder, Haggadot, and Matzos." }, { "scheme": "Hebrew name", "value_or_pattern": "פסח", "note": "Also called Chag HaMatzot (Festival of Unleavened Bread) and Chag HaAviv (Festival of Spring)." }, { "scheme": "Jewish calendar date", "value_or_pattern": "15-21 Nisan (Israel); 15-22 Nisan (most Diaspora communities)", "note": "The offering itself is associated with 14 Nisan afternoon/evening; the festival meal begins 15 Nisan at nightfall." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Passover this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Torah: Exodus 12; Leviticus 23:4-8; Deuteronomy 16:1-8 (paschal offering, unleavened bread, pilgrimage).", "Mishnah and Babylonian Talmud, tractate Pesachim (chametz, the offering, and the seder).", "Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim §§429-494 (Joseph Karo, with later glosses; governing code for rabbinic practice).", "Kosher-for-Passover industrial rules of certifiers such as the Orthodox Union (OU-P), OK, and Star-K (chametz and kitniyot control in food and medicine).", "Israel: first and seventh days of Passover as national rest days under the Hours of Work and Rest Law, 1951, with Chol HaMoed as a distinct intermediate-day regime." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Passover 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": [ "Family or communal seder on 15 Nisan (and 16 Nisan in the Diaspora), using a Haggadah, four cups of wine, matzah, maror, and a seder plate.", "Household and commercial purge or sale of chametz before 14 Nisan, including synagogue-brokered mechirat chametz.", "Annual supermarket and factory reset to kosher-for-Passover lines; hotel, cruise, and military Passover programs.", "Synagogue liturgy (Hallel, festival Torah readings) and, in Israel, school and workplace closure on the holy days.", "Samaritan communal slaughter and roast of paschal lambs on Mount Gerizim, attended as a living biblical rite.", "Interfaith, political, and educational seders that reuse the Haggadah as a liberation script outside strictly halakhic settings." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Passover 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": "Festival length", "typical_range": "7 (Israel and many Reform communities) or 8 (most Orthodox Diaspora)", "unit": "day" }, { "quantity": "Seder cups of wine or grape juice", "typical_range": "4 (Elijah's cup is a fifth vessel, not drunk in standard practice)", "unit": "cup" }, { "quantity": "Matzah dough time from water contact to oven", "typical_range": "≤18", "unit": "minute" }, { "quantity": "Minimum matzah eaten (kezayit, authority-dependent)", "typical_range": "about 15-50", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "Civil date of 15 Nisan (Gregorian, modern cycle)", "typical_range": "late March to late April", "unit": "calendar date" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Passover 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": [ "Inadvertent chametz in a home, kitchen, factory, or medication, which under rabbinic law can invalidate food and the household's observance.", "Kitniyot (rice, beans, corn, and similar) treated as forbidden by Ashkenazim but permitted by most Sephardim, producing communal dispute and accidental breach.", "Civil-calendar conversion error so that the seder is held on the wrong night.", "Foodborne illness at large communal seders (perishable salads, eggs, wine, and roasted meat).", "Historical blood-libel accusations and associated violence clustered around the festival in Christian Europe.", "Cost barrier: kosher-for-Passover food priced beyond some households, producing exclusion rather than ritual failure in the narrow sense." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Passover 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": [ "Israel: seven days and one seder; most Orthodox Diaspora communities: eight days and two seders (yom tov sheni).", "Ashkenazim avoid kitniyot; most Sephardi and Mizrahi communities eat them.", "Distinct seder foods and recitation customs among Yemenite, Iraqi, Moroccan, and other communities (kitniyot dishes, wrapping or carrying the afikoman, different dippings).", "Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) historically kept Fasika/Magdala practices now largely aligned with rabbinic Israeli norms.", "Samaritans still sacrifice on Mount Gerizim on 14 Nisan of their calendar.", "Karaites date the month by lunar observation and often diverge from the rabbinic 15 Nisan.", "Many Reform and some Conservative Diaspora communities keep seven days." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Passover 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": "Easter / Pascha", "difference": "Christian feast of the resurrection; English Pascha and some 'Passover' usages share the pesach→pascha etymology, but the commemorated event, liturgy, and dating (Nicaea/computus versus 15 Nisan) differ." }, { "name": "Festival of Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMatzot)", "difference": "Biblically a seven-day grain festival from 15 Nisan; the paschal offering is the 14 Nisan night rite. Later Judaism fused the two names; the test is whether the object is the offering-night or the leaven-free week." }, { "name": "Fast of the Firstborn (Ta'anit Bechorot)", "difference": "Daytime fast on 14 Nisan for firstborns, ending before the seder; it is a eve-of-festival practice, not Passover itself." }, { "name": "Shavuot (Weeks / Pentecost)", "difference": "Pilgrimage festival reached by counting the omer fifty days after the omer offering; no Passover chametz ban and a different agricultural and revelation theme." }, { "name": "Eucharist / Lord's Supper", "difference": "Christian sacrament using Last Supper and paschal typology; the test is church sacrament versus Jewish seder and Haggadah in a household or synagogue." }, { "name": "Purim", "difference": "Jewish festival on 14 Adar (late winter) of reversal and feasting, with no chametz prohibition and a different biblical book (Esther)." }, { "name": "Ramadan", "difference": "Islamic month of dawn-to-dusk fasting on a lunar calendar; outsiders sometimes analogize the two, but law, food rules, and commemorated events are unrelated." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Passover this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Passover to encompass historical observances and contemporary non-rabbinic Jewish traditions, and what distinctions would those require?", "Which calendar authorities and rules should resolve duration, day boundaries and travel cases for each supported community?", "How should differing household and guest customs be represented when there is no single agreed food or seder standard?", "What evidence is sufficient to record completion of chametz-related actions without implying an independent religious ruling?", "How should health-related adaptations and exemptions be recorded while leaving medical and religious determinations with the relevant people?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 29 } }, "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. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "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 Passover, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Passover observance, assess its preparation and current state against the participants' declared practice, and identify appropriate next actions.", "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: Mechirat Hametz, Pesach Sheni, Chol HaMoed.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 95 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "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 Passover, 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.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "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": [ "Mechirat Hametz", "Pesach Sheni", "Chol HaMoed" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 95 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 Passover from another, and a Passover 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 Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 Passover 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 Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 Passover from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 Passover 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 Passover between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 Passover, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Passover 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 Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 Passover 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 Passover, 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 Passover and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 Passover consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Passover 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 Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 Passover 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 Passover 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 Passover 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 Passover 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 Passover?", "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 Passover?", "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 Passover 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 Passover and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 Passover is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Passover, 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 Passover, 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 Passover 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 } } } }