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contested or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies cases in which an agent cannot confidently assign membership." }, { "name": "Division status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed, in use, superseded or withdrawn", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a proposed or obsolete division from being treated as currently applicable." } ], "affordances": [ "Determine which part contains a given element, location or interval under the stated criterion.", "Check for uncovered portions, overlapping parts and inconsistent boundary decisions.", "Compare alternative divisions of the same whole and explain where their memberships differ.", "Identify which downstream decisions depend on a particular division.", "Propose boundary revisions, refinement into smaller parts or consolidation of parts subject to stated authority.", "Suspend application where the whole, criterion or boundary is unresolved." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "whole-and-parts", "name": "Whole and 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"kind": "action", "id": "membership-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverage-and-separation", "name": "Coverage and separation", "description": "Assesses whether the declared parts account for the whole and remain distinct.", "rationale": "Missing portions and overlapping membership can invalidate uses that require a complete, exclusive partition.", "layers": [ { "id": "whole-coverage", "name": "Whole coverage", "description": "Determines whether the parts exhaust the specified whole.", "findings": [ { "id": "remainder-accounting", "name": "Remainder accounting", "description": "Record uncovered portions and distinguish deliberate exclusions from unresolved or accidental gaps.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the parts collectively cover the whole, and what evidence or measure supports that assessment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "remainder-accounting-q01" }, { "text": "Is any remainder an explicit part, an allowed omission or evidence that the division is incomplete?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "remainder-accounting-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "part-exclusivity", "name": "Part exclusivity", "description": "Determines whether membership in more than one part is possible or permitted.", "findings": [ { "id": "overlap-assessment", "name": "Overlap assessment", "description": "Record intersections between parts and whether they comply with the intended meaning of this division.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parts overlap, and how can the extent of their overlap be established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "overlap-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Does the intended use permit shared membership, or does it require mutually exclusive parts?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "overlap-assessment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "application-and-revision", "name": "Application and revision", "description": "Establishes when the division may guide decisions and how it may change.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish recognising a boundary from having authority to 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No registry definition was supplied.", "Does the registry require divisions to be exhaustive and mutually exclusive, or does it admit partial and overlapping divisions?", "How should this entry be bounded against neighbouring concepts such as partition, decomposition, separation and distinction?", "Does the registered thing denote the dividing act, the resulting relationship or both, and what determines continuity across revisions?", "Which existing Vercy world model, if any, already owns this concept and should serve as its single source of truth?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "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 division, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a division of a whole into parts, assess whether its boundaries and results are coherent, and determine whether it may be applied, revised or reversed.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Euclidean division, galley division, division by zero.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 133 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 division, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "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": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "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": [ "Euclidean division", "galley division", "division by zero" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 133 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 division from another, and a division 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 division, 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 division, 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 division 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 division, 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 division, 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 division 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 division 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 division, 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 division, 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 division 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 division from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a division, 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 division, 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 division 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 division 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 division between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies 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division, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a division 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 division and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a division, and in what units or 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"validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a division, 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 division, 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 division 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 } } } }