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alleged or adjudicated act against a political authority to which an actor allegedly owes allegiance, including jurisdiction-dependent definitions and contested political uses of the term.", "in_scope": [ "Legal and political senses of treason, with their defining authorities", "The alleged allegiance relationship and protected political authority", "Conduct, intent and circumstances alleged to constitute treason", "Evidence connecting an actor to the alleged conduct and required elements", "Accusation, prosecution, adjudication and subsequent changes in case status", "Disputes over whether the label describes an offence or delegitimises opposition" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Espionage as a separate activity or offence, except where it overlaps with treason", "Sedition, rebellion and insurrection except for their boundaries with treason", "Ordinary interpersonal betrayal without a claimed political allegiance relationship", "Military operations and intelligence tradecraft", "The general organisation of criminal courts and penal systems", "Comprehensive models of citizenship, sovereignty or political legitimacy" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify an allegedly breached allegiance relationship; harm to a state alone does not establish treason.", "For a legal classification, identify the jurisdiction, relevant date and authoritative offence definition before testing conduct against its elements.", "Test espionage, rebellion or assistance to an adversary separately against the applicable treason criteria rather than treating those labels as interchangeable.", "Separate evidence of conduct and required intent from assertions of disloyalty, unpopular beliefs or opposition to a government.", "Record whether 'treason' is a political characterisation, a formal accusation or a judicial determination; none automatically establishes the others." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Usage sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "legal offence | political accusation | historical classification | contested or mixed", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the agent should apply legal elements, analyse attributed rhetoric or preserve competing interpretations." }, { "name": "Applicable legal frame", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Jurisdiction, governing instrument, provision, effective dates and relevant interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the agent from importing one jurisdiction's or period's definition into another." }, { "name": "Allegiance relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Actor, alleged recipient of allegiance, asserted legal basis, temporal scope and dispute status", "why_it_matters": "Makes the claimed duty and its applicability explicit rather than inferring them solely from identity or residence." }, { "name": "Alleged conduct category", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Categories specified by the applicable definition, with separately recorded alleged acts", "why_it_matters": "Allows conduct to be assessed against the selected definition without inventing a universal list of treasonous acts." }, { "name": "Required mental element assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not identified | unassessed | supported | disputed | not established | adjudicated", "why_it_matters": "Separates the applicable intent requirement from inferences about motive or political sympathy." }, { "name": "Element-level evidential support", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Required element linked to supporting evidence, counterevidence, provenance and relevant findings", "why_it_matters": "Shows which parts of an allegation have support and which remain unresolved." }, { "name": "Procedural posture", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "political allegation only | investigation | charge | pending proceedings | conviction | acquittal | dismissal | other documented disposition; review status recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an allegation from being represented as a conviction and preserves the meaning of later decisions." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare a claimed instance with the elements of a dated, jurisdiction-specific definition.", "Map the asserted allegiance relationship and flag unresolved questions about whom it binds.", "Identify missing evidence and counterevidence for each alleged element.", "Distinguish treason allegations from neighbouring offences and political rhetoric.", "Track case outcomes and revise descriptions when authoritative decisions change.", "Produce an attributed assessment explaining what is established, disputed and still needed before classification." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-authority", "name": "Meaning and authority", "description": "Establish which sense of treason is being used and who supplies its criteria.", "rationale": "An agent cannot evaluate treason by treating a political accusation or a foreign legal definition as universally authoritative.", "layers": [ { "id": "legal-definition", "name": "Legal definition", "description": "Identify the applicable offence definition and its temporal and territorial reach.", "findings": [ { "id": "controlling-treason-definition", "name": "Controlling treason definition", "description": "Record the authoritative text and interpretation proposed to govern the alleged conduct, preserving uncertainty about applicability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which jurisdiction, provision and authoritative interpretation define treason for this alleged act?", "kind": "definition", "id": "controlling-treason-definition-q01" }, { "text": "Was that definition applicable to this actor, location and date, and what source establishes its reach?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "controlling-treason-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "political-and-contested-usage", "name": "Political and contested usage", "description": "Separate attributed claims of betrayal from legal classifications and compare competing meanings.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-treason-label", "name": "Attributed treason label", "description": "Record who calls conduct treason, their stated criteria and whether they claim legal or political authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who applies the treason label, and do they mean a legal offence, betrayal of a political community or something else?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-treason-label-q01" }, { "text": "Which competing interpretation disputes the label, and does the disagreement concern facts, allegiance or the definition itself?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-treason-label-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "allegiance-and-protected-authority", "name": "Allegiance and protected authority", "description": "Model the relationship whose alleged breach makes conduct a candidate for treason.", "rationale": "The agent must distinguish an alleged betrayal by a bound actor from hostile conduct by someone outside the relevant duty.", "layers": [ { "id": "actor-allegiance", "name": "Actor allegiance", "description": "Establish the asserted source and duration of the actor's duty.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-allegiance", "name": "Basis of allegiance", "description": "Identify the legal or political basis asserted for allegiance without assuming that nationality, residence or an oath is sufficient.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rule or attributed political theory makes this actor owe allegiance, and to whom?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-of-allegiance-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes that the asserted duty existed when the conduct occurred?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-allegiance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protected-political-entity", "name": "Protected political entity", "description": "Distinguish the state, constitutional order, sovereign or other entity claimed to be protected.", "findings": [ { "id": "recipient-and-continuity-of-allegiance", "name": "Recipient and continuity of allegiance", "description": "Record the protected entity and disputes arising from rival governments, succession, occupation or constitutional rupture.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the applicable account protect a state, sovereign, constitutional order, government or another specified entity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recipient-and-continuity-of-allegiance-q01" }, { "text": "If political authority changed or was disputed, what establishes the recipient and continuity of the alleged allegiance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recipient-and-continuity-of-allegiance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conduct-intent-and-offence-boundaries", "name": "Conduct, intent and offence boundaries", "description": "Assess the alleged acts and mental elements against the selected treason definition.", "rationale": "Disloyalty language cannot substitute for identifying qualifying conduct, required intent and any definition-specific circumstances.", "layers": [ { "id": "qualifying-conduct", "name": "Qualifying conduct", "description": "Translate the allegation into identifiable acts and test any required adversary or conflict connection.", "findings": [ { "id": "acts-and-required-circumstances", "name": "Acts and required circumstances", "description": "Map concrete alleged conduct to the applicable categories, identifying any required enemy status, conflict condition or assistance nexus.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which specific acts allegedly satisfy which parts of the treason definition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "acts-and-required-circumstances-q01" }, { "text": "If the definition requires an enemy, conflict or assistance relationship, what establishes that condition at the relevant time?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "acts-and-required-circumstances-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intent-and-neighbouring-conduct", "name": "Intent and neighbouring conduct", "description": "Assess the required mental element and distinguish overlapping or nonqualifying behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "mental-element-and-alternative-classification", "name": "Mental element and alternative classification", "description": "Separate legally required intent from motive and test whether another classification better fits the evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What mental element does the applicable definition require, and what evidence supports or contradicts its presence?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mental-element-and-alternative-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional criteria distinguish this allegation from espionage, rebellion, unauthorised disclosure or lawful political dissent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mental-element-and-alternative-classification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "proof-disposition-and-permitted-response", "name": "Proof, disposition and permitted response", "description": "Connect evidence and procedural outcomes to the statements and actions an agent can justify.", "rationale": "A treason model must preserve the difference between accusation and establishment while supporting updates and appropriately bounded action.", "layers": [ { "id": "proof-and-counterevidence", "name": "Proof and counterevidence", "description": "Evaluate provenance, evidentiary requirements and reasons an allegation may fail.", "findings": [ { "id": "element-specific-proof", "name": "Element-specific proof", "description": "Attach evidence and counterevidence to each required element, including any applicable special proof rules or defences.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sources support each alleged element, and which are firsthand evidence, inference or repeated accusation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "element-specific-proof-q01" }, { "text": "What applicable proof requirements, counterevidence or defences remain unresolved before the allegation can be treated as established?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "element-specific-proof-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "case-state-and-agent-action", "name": "Case state and agent action", "description": "Record 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hold for the sense of treason 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": [ "High treason: historically, treason against the sovereign or state.", "Petty treason: a historical category in English law covering certain killings of a superior by a subordinate.", "Treason by levying war: distinguished explicitly in some legal systems.", "Treason by assisting enemies: distinguished explicitly in some legal systems." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of treason this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "United States 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"id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of treason 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": [ "United States constitutional law narrowly defines treason against the United States through levying war or adhering to enemies and giving them aid and comfort.", "English treason law developed around allegiance to the monarch and enumerated acts; historical provisions must be distinguished from those still operative.", "Other legal systems distinguish offences against constitutional order, territorial integrity or external security using categories that do not map exactly onto English-language treason." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for 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"Which selected legal systems impose distinctive conduct, intent or proof requirements, and how do those requirements separate treason from neighbouring offences?", "What evidence is sufficient to characterise a treason accusation as an attempt to delegitimise opposition without inferring the accuser's motives?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 23 } }, "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 treason, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to distinguish allegations of treason from established legal findings and political accusations, assess the applicable criteria, and identify justified next steps.", "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: plotting treason, wartime collaboration, perduellio, High treason in the United Kingdom, Treason in Japan, collaboration under German occupation during World War II, Jewish collaboration with Nazi Germany, Jøssing, collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, collaboration under the Japanese occupation during World War II, Luxembourgish collaboration with Nazi Germany, Belarusian collaborationism with the Axis powers.", "13 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 72 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 treason, 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": [ "plotting treason", "wartime collaboration", "perduellio", "High treason in the United Kingdom", "Treason in Japan", "collaboration under German occupation during World War II", "Jewish collaboration with Nazi Germany", "Jøssing", "collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy", "collaboration under the Japanese occupation during World War II", "Luxembourgish collaboration with Nazi Germany", "Belarusian collaborationism with the Axis powers" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 72 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 13 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 treason from another, and a treason 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 treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 treason 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 treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 treason from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 treason 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 treason between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 treason, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a treason 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 treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 treason 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 treason, 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 treason and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 treason consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a treason 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 treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 treason 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 treason 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 treason 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 treason 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 treason?", "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 treason?", "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 treason 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 treason and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 treason is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a treason, 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 treason, 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 treason 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 } } } }