{ "model": { "rank": 3840, "code": "thing-q138045", "model_id": "vr.tr.eternity", "name": "eternity", "purpose": "Enable an agent to distinguish conceptions of eternity, record what a particular claim commits to, and assess which interpretations and inferences it supports.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q138045/", "tier": 2, "score": 81, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Eternity of God in Islam", "eternity of God" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 81, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.eternity", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q138045", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138045", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T18:53:07Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08783-58e1-75c1-8429-299154b7c94b\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: eternity\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: XCT.REL\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 695 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 registe", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 60.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08783-58ef-7db1-8670-04f3ed4911cf\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: eternity\nRegistry id: vr.tr.eternity\nPlane / domain: XCT / XCT.REL\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContex" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q138045", "registryId": "vr.tr.eternity", "name": "eternity", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.REL" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q138045/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.eternity", "name": "eternity", "purpose": "Enable an agent to distinguish conceptions of eternity, record what a particular claim commits to, and assess which interpretations and inferences it supports.", "definition": "Eternity is a philosophical and religious concept understood principally as existence without temporal succession or as duration without end, with disagreement over which understanding applies to divine existence and ultimate reality.", "scope_statement": "This model owns eternity as an abstract religious and philosophical concept concerning existence without temporal limits or outside temporal succession, preserving competing interpretations without assuming that anything eternal exists.", "in_scope": [ "Eternity understood as timeless existence or as everlasting temporal existence", "Differences between beginninglessness, endlessness, and existence without either temporal boundary", "Attribution of eternity to a deity, reality, truth, soul, or condition within an identified account", "Relations between eternity, temporal succession, change, and temporal events", "Literal, analogical, and figurative uses of eternity and the interpretive evidence distinguishing them" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Time and duration in general", "Mathematical infinity and infinite sets independently of claims about eternity", "Immortality, resurrection, and afterlife doctrines beyond their specific temporal commitments", "Cosmological models and empirical estimates of the universe's age or future", "Religious traditions, deities, and sacred texts as independently modelled things" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A literal eternity claim concerns absence of a temporal limit or temporal succession; an extremely long but bounded interval does not satisfy it.", "An everlasting interpretation permits temporal succession, whereas a timeless interpretation denies that succession applies to the eternal bearer.", "Endlessness alone does not establish beginninglessness: something described as eternal may be claimed to begin and never end.", "Immortality concerns exemption from death and does not by itself establish timelessness, beginninglessness, or necessary existence.", "Infinite recurrence does not by itself establish eternity: the account must specify whether the series has temporal boundaries and whether individual occurrences endure." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Temporal interpretation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "timeless; everlasting; mixed or qualified; unspecified; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether duration, succession, and temporal location are applicable." }, { "name": "Temporal boundaries", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Record beginning and end separately as present, absent, unspecified, disputed, or inapplicable under a timeless interpretation.", "why_it_matters": "Prevents future endlessness from being silently expanded into existence without any temporal boundary." }, { "name": "Bearer of eternity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed entity, proposition, reality, process, or condition, with the attribution's author or tradition", "why_it_matters": "Separates the concept from the particular things an account calls eternal." }, { "name": "Succession and change", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "For succession and change separately: permitted; excluded; qualified; unspecified; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Exposes commitments that distinguish an unending life from existence without successive states." }, { "name": "Modal commitment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "necessary existence asserted; contingent existence allowed; unspecified; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents temporal claims from being treated as proof of metaphysical necessity." }, { "name": "Register of use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "literal metaphysical; doctrinal; analogical; experiential; rhetorical; ambiguous", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether a passage supports an ontological claim or describes an experience or expression." }, { "name": "Interpretive status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "explicitly defined; contextually supported; competing readings; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Makes uncertainty visible before an agent compares or draws conclusions from eternity claims." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an eternity claim by its temporal interpretation while retaining unresolved alternatives.", "Compare two accounts and identify whether their disagreement concerns boundaries, succession, change, or the bearer.", "Check whether conclusions about necessity, immutability, or immortality require additional premises.", "Annotate passages with attributed meanings and evidence without endorsing their metaphysical claims.", "Identify equivocation when an argument shifts between timelessness and endless duration.", "Generate targeted research questions when a text leaves the meaning or application of eternity unsettled." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "temporal-meanings", "name": "Temporal meanings", "description": "Distinguishes the temporal structures that an account may express through eternity.", "rationale": "Without this distinction, an agent can mistake incompatible definitions for interchangeable descriptions.", "layers": [ { "id": "timelessness-and-everlastingness", "name": "Timelessness and everlastingness", "description": "Records whether temporal succession applies to the proposed eternal existence.", "findings": [ { "id": "succession-commitment", "name": "Succession commitment", "description": "Record whether the account excludes successive moments or allows existence through an unending succession; do not settle the meaning from the word eternity alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does eternity here mean existence outside temporal succession or existence continuing through successive times?", "kind": "definition", "id": "succession-commitment-q01" }, { "text": "Which passage or explicit definition supports this reading, and does the same source use another reading elsewhere?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "succession-commitment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "beginning-and-end", "name": "Beginning and end", "description": "Separates temporal boundaries instead of treating eternal as a single undifferentiated duration.", "findings": [ { "id": "independent-temporal-boundaries", "name": "Independent temporal boundaries", "description": "Record beginninglessness and endlessness independently where temporal existence applies; for timeless accounts, assess whether boundary questions are inapplicable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the account deny a beginning, deny an end, deny both, or reject temporal boundaries as inapplicable?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "independent-temporal-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Would something that begins but never ends count as eternal under this account?", "kind": "definition", "id": "independent-temporal-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bearers-and-existence", "name": "Bearers and existence", "description": "Locates eternity claims in what they concern and separates their temporal content from other existential commitments.", "rationale": "Calling a truth, a deity, or a life eternal may express different claims and cannot establish that the bearer exists.", "layers": [ { "id": "eternity-attribution", "name": "Eternity attribution", "description": "Identifies the bearer and the precise respect in which eternity is attributed.", "findings": [ { "id": "bearer-and-respect", "name": "Bearer and respect", "description": "Record whether eternity concerns a bearer's existence, a truth's validity, a condition's persistence, or another explicitly explained respect.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exactly is called eternal, and is the claim about existence, validity, persistence, or another property?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bearer-and-respect-q01" }, { "text": "Does the account explicitly extend this meaning to other bearers, or would doing so change its sense?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bearer-and-respect-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "necessity-and-dependence", "name": "Necessity and dependence", "description": "Separates eternity from necessary existence, self-existence, and independence.", "findings": [ { "id": "additional-existential-premises", "name": "Additional existential premises", "description": "Track whether necessity or independence is separately asserted, argued from eternity, or left unspecified.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the account allow an eternal bearer to depend on something else or to have failed to exist?", "kind": "definition", "id": "additional-existential-premises-q01" }, { "text": "What additional premises would be required before an agent could infer necessary or independent existence from this eternity claim?", "kind": "action", "id": "additional-existential-premises-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "eternity-and-temporal-reality", "name": "Eternity and temporal reality", "description": "Examines how a proposed eternal bearer changes, relates to events, or participates in temporal life.", "rationale": "Claims about eternal knowledge, action, and life depend on how the account connects eternity with succession.", "layers": [ { "id": "change-and-identity", "name": "Change and identity", "description": "Clarifies whether eternity permits different states and what remains the same across them.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-successive-states", "name": "Permitted successive states", "description": "Record whether the bearer can undergo change and whether identity belongs to one enduring bearer, a recurring pattern, or a succession of replacements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the eternal bearer have different states, and how does the account reconcile that answer with its treatment of succession?", "kind": "definition", "id": "permitted-successive-states-q01" }, { "text": "If a pattern recurs indefinitely, does the account call the pattern, the series, or each occurrence eternal?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-successive-states-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "relations-to-events", "name": "Relations to events", "description": "Captures proposed relations between eternity and events located in time.", "findings": [ { "id": "temporal-contact-account", "name": "Temporal contact account", "description": "Where an account attributes knowledge, causation, or presence to an eternal bearer, record its explanation of that relation without assuming ordinary temporal ordering.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the account explain an eternal bearer's knowing, causing, or being present to a particular temporal event?", "kind": "definition", "id": "temporal-contact-account-q01" }, { "text": "When the account says all times are present to an eternal bearer, does it define presence as temporal simultaneity, analogy, or another relation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "temporal-contact-account-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-assessment", "name": "Interpretation and assessment", "description": "Supports evidence-based interpretation and careful assessment of eternity claims.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish an account's commitments from translation choices, figurative language, and unsupported inferences.", "layers": [ { "id": "text-and-context", "name": "Text and context", "description": "Records whose conception is being represented and how the wording supports it.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-reading", "name": "Attributed reading", "description": "Attach an interpretation to an identifiable author, text, tradition, or interpreter, preserving disputes over translation and literal meaning.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose account is this, and which source passages establish the proposed meaning of eternity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-reading-q01" }, { "text": "Does the wording support literal eternity, an unspecified long age, or a figurative experience of time?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-reading-q02" }, { "text": "Which competing interpretations of this passage must remain visible rather than being merged into one definition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-reading-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "criteria-and-inference", "name": "Criteria and inference", "description": "Separates identifying an eternity claim, evaluating its coherence, and establishing its truth.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-of-assessment", "name": "Limits of assessment", "description": "Record what the account treats as grounds for eternity and distinguish finite observations or reported experiences from demonstrations of timelessness or endless existence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What would count as an instance or counterexample under this definition, and what grounds does the account accept for that judgment?", "kind": "definition", "id": "limits-of-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "If a study measures a reported experience of eternity, what is actually measured and how is it distinguished from an ontological claim?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "limits-of-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "Which conclusions may the agent draw from the available evidence, and which require additional premises or unresolved interpretation?", "kind": "action", "id": "limits-of-assessment-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense was recorded; this description covers philosophical and religious eternity rather than figurative uses for a very long time.", "The attribution and interpretation of timelessness require checking against individual thinkers and texts; traditions are not internally uniform.", "There is no generally accepted empirical measurement or operational definition that settles the competing metaphysical accounts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of eternity this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Timeless eternity: existence without temporal succession", "Beginningless and endless duration: existence throughout time", "Everlasting existence: existence with a beginning but no end" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of eternity this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Philosophical theology uses eternity to examine divine existence and its relation to time.", "Debates about divine foreknowledge and human freedom distinguish timeless knowledge from knowledge of future events.", "Religious teachings invoke eternity when discussing salvation, judgment and life after death.", "Metaphysics uses the concept to distinguish temporal existence from purportedly timeless being." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of eternity this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating timelessness and endless duration as interchangeable obscures their different implications.", "Assuming that every religious tradition understands eternity in the same way.", "Treating an infinite duration as a measured quantity or an empirically established property.", "Equating eternal life with endless chronological survival when a tradition also gives it qualitative or relational meaning.", "Confusing eternity with eternalism, a position about the reality of past, present and future." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of eternity this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Christian philosophical theology includes both accounts of divine timelessness associated with Boethius and Aquinas and accounts of God as everlasting through temporal succession.", "Jewish and Islamic philosophical theology also debates divine eternity and its relation to creation; positions vary within each tradition." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of eternity this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "infinity", "difference": "Infinity concerns unboundedness or mathematical size; eternity specifically concerns time or a mode of existence beyond time." }, { "name": "immortality", "difference": "Immortality means freedom from death and can belong to a being with a beginning; eternity need not concern living beings or survival." }, { "name": "timelessness", "difference": "Timelessness excludes temporal succession; eternity can instead mean duration without end." }, { "name": "eternalism", "difference": "Eternalism holds that past, present and future entities or events are equally real; it does not entail that time is endless." }, { "name": "eternal recurrence", "difference": "Eternal recurrence involves repeated events or cycles; eternity does not require repetition." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of eternity this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which reference works and primary texts should establish the principal competing definitions and their attributed proponents?", "Does the registry intend eternity to include experiential and rhetorical senses, or should those appear only as boundary cases?", "Which tradition-specific terms translated as eternity require separate interpretive treatment within this single entry?", "Which accounts distinguish timelessness, everlastingness, and qualified combinations in ways that require additional model categories?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link rather than a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 24 } }, "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 eternity, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to distinguish conceptions of eternity, record what a particular claim commits to, and assess which interpretations and inferences it supports.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Eternity of God in Islam, eternity of God.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 81 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 eternity, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "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": [ "Eternity of God in Islam", "eternity of God" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 81 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 eternity from another, and a eternity 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 eternity, 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 eternity, 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 eternity 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 eternity, 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 eternity, 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 eternity 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 eternity 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 eternity, 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 eternity, 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 eternity 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 eternity from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a eternity, 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 eternity, 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 eternity 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 eternity 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 eternity between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a eternity, 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 eternity, 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 eternity 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 eternity, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a eternity 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 eternity, 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 eternity, 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 eternity 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 eternity 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 eternity 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 eternity 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 eternity 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 eternity?", "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 eternity?", "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 eternity 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 eternity and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a eternity, 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 eternity, 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 eternity 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 eternity is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a eternity, 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 eternity, 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 eternity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }