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harmful conduct without that connection is insufficient.", "Making someone suffer or pay for the wrong is an intended effect, rather than merely an incidental consequence of protection or recovery.", "Anger or a revenge fantasy alone does not establish an intention to act; the model distinguishes feeling, imagining, intending and attempting.", "An accountability or justice label does not settle classification: examine whether retaliatory suffering is also intended.", "The selected target may differ from the alleged wrongdoer; record that substitution rather than assuming the target committed the wrong." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Perceived precipitating wrong", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to alleged events, omissions or patterns, with the claimant and supporting or conflicting accounts", "why_it_matters": "Establishes what the actor believes the revenge answers without validating the allegation." }, { "name": "Retaliatory intent evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Explicitly expressed; reported by another; inferred; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates evidence of revenge from an observer's interpretation." }, { "name": "Motive composition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Non-exclusive: making the target suffer; making the target pay; deterrence; protection; restitution; status restoration; other; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows revenge to coexist with other purposes without collapsing them into one motive." }, { "name": "Target responsibility relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed wrongdoer; alleged participant; associated person or group; substitute target; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes transferred blame and mismatches between responsibility and targeting visible." }, { "name": "Revenge progression", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Imagined; desired; intended; prepared; attempted; enacted; suspended; abandoned; unclear", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes mental content from commitment and action; values need not form a linear sequence." }, { "name": "Intended punitive effect", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Non-exclusive: physical injury; emotional distress; humiliation; exclusion; reputational loss; material loss; symbolic punishment; other; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records what would make the act count as payback for the actor." }, { "name": "Time since perceived wrong", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Elapsed time with unit, reference event and uncertainty; not applicable when no single event is identified", "why_it_matters": "Places the retaliation in relation to the grievance and distinguishes immediate response from delayed pursuit." }, { "name": "Actor's stopping criterion", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unspecified; conditional; reportedly satisfied; rejected; shifting; unknown, with the stated condition", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of whether the revenge pursuit can end or continues after its stated objective." } ], "affordances": [ "Record the alleged wrong, retaliatory intent and target relationship while preserving conflicting accounts.", "Distinguish revenge from defence, recovery and accountability, including cases with mixed motives.", "Track movement from fantasy or desire to intention, attempt, enactment, suspension or abandonment.", "Assess intended and observed harm, effects on uninvolved people and evidence of reciprocal retaliation.", "Identify opportunities to interrupt retaliation and pursue protection, repair or accountability without a payback objective." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-revenge", "title": "Revenge. Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge", "what_it_supports": "Survey of the concept, cultural forms such as vendetta and honour revenge, and the ordinary contrast with legal punishment", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "elster-1990", "title": "Norms of Revenge. Jon Elster. Ethics 100(4), University of Chicago Press, 1990", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Analytical account of revenge as a social norm, its claimed rationality, and how it differs from institutionalized justice" }, { "id": "nisbett-cohen-1996", "title": "Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South. Richard E. Nisbett and Dov Cohen. Westview Press, 1996", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Empirical treatment of insult-triggered, honor-culture retaliation and regional variation in the United States" }, { "id": "mccullough-2008", "title": "Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct. Michael E. McCullough. Jossey-Bass, 2008", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Functional account of revenge as deterrence and of why cycles of retaliation often fail to close the account" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "grievance-and-attribution", "name": "Grievance and attribution", "description": "The perceived wrong that gives the revenge its meaning and the assignment of responsibility for it.", "rationale": "Revenge cannot be recognised from harmful action alone; it requires a claimed connection to a prior wrong.", "layers": [ { "id": "precipitating-wrong", "name": "Precipitating wrong", "description": "What allegedly happened, who experienced it and how its account is supported.", "findings": [ { "id": "claimed-injury", "name": "Claimed injury", "description": "Record the actor's account of the wrong separately from corroborated events and other parties' accounts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What event, omission or repeated treatment does the actor identify as the wrong being avenged?", "kind": "definition", "id": "claimed-injury-q01" }, { "text": "Whose account establishes this grievance, and what evidence supports or challenges it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claimed-injury-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assigned-responsibility", "name": "Assigned responsibility", "description": "How the actor moves from experiencing a wrong to blaming someone for it.", "findings": [ { "id": "blame-link", "name": "Blame link", "description": "Record the attributed wrongdoer, the alleged contribution and uncertainty about that attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is blamed, and what act, omission or responsibility is attributed to them?", "kind": "definition", "id": "blame-link-q01" }, { "text": "Is the attribution acknowledged, independently supported, disputed or based on association alone?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "blame-link-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "payback-intent", "name": "Payback intent", "description": "The desired connection between another party's suffering or loss and the perceived wrong.", "rationale": "Intent distinguishes revenge from conduct with similar outward effects, including protection, recovery and punishment.", "layers": [ { "id": "desired-retribution", "name": "Desired retribution", "description": "What the actor wants the target to experience as payback.", "findings": [ { "id": "punitive-purpose", "name": "Punitive purpose", "description": "Record the intended suffering or loss and the evidence that it is meant to answer the grievance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the actor want the target to suffer, lose or acknowledge because of the perceived wrong?", "kind": "definition", "id": "punitive-purpose-q01" }, { "text": "What statements or contextual evidence support a payback interpretation, and who supplies that interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "punitive-purpose-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mixed-motives-and-boundaries", "name": "Mixed motives and boundaries", "description": "Where retaliation overlaps with other purposes without becoming identical to them.", "findings": [ { "id": "revenge-component", "name": "Revenge component", "description": "Keep the retaliatory component distinct from any protective, reparative or institutional purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would the actor still seek the target's suffering if protection, restitution or formal accountability were already secured?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "revenge-component-q01" }, { "text": "Which intended effects concern preventing or repairing harm, and which concern making the target pay?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "revenge-component-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "targets-and-retaliatory-expression", "name": "Targets and retaliatory expression", "description": "Who or what is selected to bear the retaliation and how the act is meant to express payback.", "rationale": "Revenge may target an alleged wrongdoer, their interests or associated people; these relationships materially change its assessment.", "layers": [ { "id": "target-selection", "name": "Target selection", "description": "The relationship between the blamed party and the person, group or interest selected for retaliation.", "findings": [ { "id": "target-and-blame-alignment", "name": "Target and blame alignment", "description": "Record whether the target is accused of causing the wrong or is being used as a substitute.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the selected target the attributed wrongdoer, an alleged participant or someone connected to them?", "kind": "definition", "id": "target-and-blame-alignment-q01" }, { "text": "Where responsibility and targeting diverge, what connection does the actor invoke to justify the substitution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "target-and-blame-alignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "payback-expression", "name": "Payback expression", "description": "The punitive effect and communicative meaning of the contemplated or enacted response.", "findings": [ { "id": "retaliatory-effect-and-message", "name": "Retaliatory effect and message", "description": "Record the broad form of retaliation, its intended effect and whether recognition as payback matters.", "questions": [ { "text": "What broad form of suffering, deprivation or humiliation is intended, and what evidence distinguishes it from incidental harm?", "kind": "definition", "id": "retaliatory-effect-and-message-q01" }, { "text": "Does the actor intend the target or an audience to understand the act as repayment for a particular wrong?", "kind": "definition", "id": "retaliatory-effect-and-message-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "commitment-and-interruption", "name": "Commitment and interruption", "description": "The distinction between imagining revenge, committing to it and acting, together with opportunities to interrupt that progression.", "rationale": "An agent needs to assess what is actually happening without treating an expressed fantasy as an executed act.", "layers": [ { "id": "retaliation-progression", "name": "Retaliation progression", "description": "The supported state of the revenge pursuit and changes in commitment over time.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-commitment", "name": "Observed commitment", "description": "Record evidence for desire, intention, preparation, attempt or enactment, including uncertainty and reversals.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes imagined or desired revenge from an intention, preparation, attempt or completed act?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observed-commitment-q01" }, { "text": "When was commitment last assessed, and what observable changes support a different state?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-commitment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "restraint-and-alternatives", "name": "Restraint and alternatives", "description": "Conditions that may suspend the pursuit and responses that address the grievance without seeking payback.", "findings": [ { "id": "interruption-options", "name": "Interruption options", "description": "Record stated restraints and feasible protective, reparative or accountability responses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What commitments, relationships or changed circumstances has the actor identified as reasons to refrain or stop?", "kind": "definition", "id": "interruption-options-q01" }, { "text": "What available action could protect affected people or address the grievance without making retaliatory suffering its objective?", "kind": "action", "id": "interruption-options-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequences-and-continuation", "name": "Consequences and continuation", "description": "What follows retaliation, whether it generates further grievances and what counts as its end.", "rationale": "An enacted revenge act does not by itself establish that the pursuit has ended or that its intended effects occurred.", "layers": [ { "id": "effects-and-reciprocity", "name": "Effects and reciprocity", "description": "Observed effects on the target and others, including subsequent acts framed as retaliation.", "findings": [ { "id": "retaliatory-consequences", "name": "Retaliatory consequences", "description": "Separate intended outcomes from observed harm and evidence of a reciprocal revenge sequence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What consequences are evidenced for the target, actor and uninvolved people, and how do they compare with the intended payback?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "retaliatory-consequences-q01" }, { "text": "Has anyone treated this retaliation as a new wrong warranting revenge, and what evidence connects the subsequent response?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "retaliatory-consequences-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stopping-and-reopening", "name": "Stopping and reopening", "description": "The actor's criteria for enough payback and evidence that the pursuit has stopped, paused or resumed.", "findings": [ { "id": "closure-claim", "name": "Closure claim", "description": "Distinguish a declared sense of completion from cessation of action, abandonment of intent or a temporary pause.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the actor say would settle the score, and has that criterion changed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "closure-claim-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports completion, abandonment, temporary suspension or renewed pursuit?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "closure-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Personal (dyadic) revenge: one party harms the specific offender for a private injury", "Blood revenge / vendetta: kin- or clan-based, often lethal, and potentially transgenerational", "Honor revenge: retaliation to repair reputation after insult, shame, or alleged sexual transgression", "Collective or vicarious revenge: harm directed at a group for an act attributed to some of its members", "Economic and workplace revenge: sabotage, boycott, bad-faith complaint, or career damage as payback", "Digital revenge: doxxing, coordinated harassment, or non-consensual intimate-image distribution", "Political or state reprisal: purge, collective punishment, or victor's justice after conflict" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of revenge 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": "Library of Congress Subject Headings", "value_or_pattern": "Revenge", "note": "Standard bibliographic heading for the action and motive; there is no ISO, product, or taxonomic code for revenge as such" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of revenge 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": [ "Private retaliation is generally absorbed into ordinary criminal offences (assault, homicide, criminal damage, harassment) under national criminal codes, which assert a state monopoly on legitimate force", "United Kingdom Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 s.33 (and later intimate-image offences) - UK Parliament; many US states and other jurisdictions have analogous statutes aimed at so-called revenge porn", "Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention, 2011), Art. 42 - Council of Europe; forbids justifying crimes as committed in the name of honour", "UN General Assembly resolutions on crimes against women committed in the name of honour (beginning with 55/66, 2000) - United Nations", "Historical lex talionis in the Code of Hammurabi and related Near Eastern and biblical law - royal/religious legislation, not current positive law", "Albanian Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini - customary code still cited in gjakmarrja (blood-feud) practice, not state legislation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of revenge 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": [ "Street, prison, and gang retaliation after assault, theft, or public disrespect", "Kin-based blood feuds in settings where the Kanun, Pashtunwali, or similar codes still structure obligation", "Honor-based violence after alleged familial or sexual transgression", "Non-consensual sharing of intimate images after a breakup", "Workplace sabotage, retaliatory complaints, or consumer payback after a perceived slight", "Political purge, collective reprisal, or 'victor's justice' after conflict or regime change", "A stock plot engine in literature, drama, and games (the revenge tragedy / revenge arc)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of revenge 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": "Lag from original injury to retaliation", "typical_range": "seconds-hours for immediate street payback; days-years for planned personal revenge; decades to generations for blood feud", "unit": "time" }, { "quantity": "Harm-matching ratio (retaliatory harm relative to original harm)", "typical_range": "often greater than 1; ethnographic feud and experimental punishment work commonly show over-matching rather than exact tit-for-tat", "unit": "dimensionless ratio" }, { "quantity": "Parties drawn into the account", "typical_range": "2 in a dyadic payback; whole lineages or local groups in an active feud", "unit": "count of persons or kin groups" }, { "quantity": "Lethal outcomes in an active blood- or honor-revenge sequence", "typical_range": "0 for reputational or economic payback; multiple homicides over years in documented Balkan, Caucasian, and Pashtun feuds", "unit": "deaths" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of revenge 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": [ "Escalation: the reply exceeds the original harm and invites counter-revenge", "Cycle lock-in: feud becomes an inherited duty independent of the first injury", "Misattribution: the wrong person or group is targeted", "Collateral harm to kin, bystanders, or a whole community", "Criminal and civil exposure of the avenger", "Failure of expected closure: rumination and further grievance after the act", "Honor killing and related femicide framed as family revenge", "Digital distribution that cannot be recalled (intimate images, doxxing)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of revenge 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": [ "Honor cultures (historically the US South, Mediterranean, Middle East, parts of South Asia) treat some insults as demanding a violent reply; dignity cultures prefer legal or reputational remedies", "Albania: gjakmarrja under the Kanun remains a named institution; the state campaigns to interrupt it", "Pashtunwali treats badal (revenge/exchange) as a recognized duty", "Japan: katakiuchi was a licensed revenge procedure under Tokugawa administration and was later abolished", "Western Europe largely criminalized private revenge as royal and then state justice monopolized force from the late Middle Ages", "US public debate sometimes frames capital punishment as societal revenge; most of Europe rejects that framing", "Naming differs: English revenge/vengeance; Italian vendetta; Albanian gjakmarrja; Arabic thaʾr; Japanese katakiuchi / fukushū" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of revenge 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": "Retribution / criminal punishment", "difference": "Imposed by a recognized authority under public rules of procedure and proportionality; revenge is private and party-controlled" }, { "name": "Self-defence", "difference": "Answers an imminent or ongoing threat in order to stop harm; revenge answers a completed past wrong" }, { "name": "Vigilantism", "difference": "Claims to enforce a public rule extra-legally; revenge need not claim to enforce law, only to settle a personal or group account" }, { "name": "Restorative justice", "difference": "Aims to repair harm and reintegrate parties; revenge aims to impose a matching or greater harm" }, { "name": "Resentment or rage", "difference": "Affective states that may motivate revenge; they are not themselves the retaliatory act" }, { "name": "Feud", "difference": "The institutionalized, often hereditary system of mutual revenge, not a single retaliatory act" }, { "name": "Civil claim or justice-seeking", "difference": "Uses a court or other forum to obtain a recognized remedy; revenge bypasses or rejects that forum" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of revenge this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should the registered ACT concept include an unacted revenge desire as an instance, or represent it only as context for a contemplated act?", "What evidence threshold should support classifying conduct as revenge when retaliatory intent is denied, inferred or mixed with accountability motives?", "How should revenge on behalf of another person or a group be bounded when the injured party does not endorse the retaliation?", "How should culturally specific accounts of honour, punishment and justified payback affect interpretation without making those labels decisive?", "When should repeated retaliation be represented as one continuing revenge pursuit versus multiple linked acts, and what evidence is sufficient to mark the pursuit ended?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a revenge, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise revenge, assess its intent and progression, and determine appropriate responses without treating a perceived wrong as permission to harm.", "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: katakiuchi, retribution of God in Islam, reprisal, retorsion.", "4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 90 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 revenge, 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": [ "katakiuchi", "retribution of God in Islam", "reprisal", "retorsion" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 90 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 revenge from another, and a revenge 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 revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 revenge 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 revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 revenge from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 revenge 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 revenge between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 revenge, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a revenge 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 revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 revenge 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 revenge, 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 revenge and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 revenge consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a revenge 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 revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 revenge 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 revenge 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 revenge 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 revenge 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 revenge?", "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 revenge?", "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 revenge 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 revenge and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 revenge is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a revenge, 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 revenge, 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 revenge 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 } } } }