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safety.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the playable arrangement and unfolding state of hide-and-seek: seeker and hider roles, concealment and search, play boundaries, discovery decisions and round transitions.", "in_scope": [ "Assignment of seeker and hider roles for each round", "Agreed hiding area, prohibited places and search boundaries", "Preparation, concealment, search and round-completion states", "Rules for recognising discovery, escape or return to a base where applicable", "Player participation, withdrawal and accounting at the end of play" ], "out_of_scope": [ "General player identity, health and personal history", "Ownership, construction and maintenance of the play location", "Tag games whose central activity is pursuit rather than finding concealed players", "Non-game searches for missing people", "Computer vision or navigation systems used to implement an artificial seeker" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Players intentionally conceal themselves from an assigned seeker within an agreed game, rather than merely being absent or missing.", "The rules provide an opportunity to hide before searching begins, rather than starting solely with an open pursuit.", "Finding concealed players is a central game objective; reaching, tagging or racing them matters only when the selected rules require it.", "What the seeker knows about hiders' locations affects play, so an agent must distinguish recorded locations from information the seeker is permitted to receive.", "Discovery and round completion follow the participants' rules; seeing a player does not automatically establish a universal win condition." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Role assignment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "player to seeker or hider for a specified round", "why_it_matters": "Determines who may hide, search and receive role-dependent information." }, { "name": "Round phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "setup, hiding, searching, paused, complete, abandoned", 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active search target without conflating withdrawal with discovery." }, { "name": "Location knowledge", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "observer to player-location claim, with observation time and disclosure permission", "why_it_matters": "Separates actual or reported location from the information available to each participant." }, { "name": "Player accounting", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "confirmed present, still playing, awaiting response, whereabouts unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Allows an ended game to remain operationally unresolved until participants are accounted for." } ], "affordances": [ "Configure a round with explicit role, boundary, discovery and ending rules.", "Check whether hiding or searching may begin under the agreed release procedure.", "Record discovery claims and resolve their effect using the selected rules.", "Provide role-appropriate guidance without revealing protected hiding information.", "Pause or end play, signal hiders to return and account for participants.", "Determine round results and assign the next seeker when the agreed procedure supports it." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-hide-and-seek", "title": "Hide-and-seek - Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide-and-seek", "what_it_supports": "Core rules, sardines and forty-forty variants, home-base play, Greek apodidraskinda, developmental-psychology use, and the 2010-2017 Nascondino World Championship.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "britannica-hide-and-seek", "title": "hide-and-seek | Definition, Rules, & Facts - Encyclopædia Britannica", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/hide-and-seek-game", "what_it_supports": "Canonical one-sentence rule set (count, find, first-found becomes seeker), sardines, Pollux's apodidraskinda, and international names (kryfto, el escondite, cache-cache, machboim, oro).", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "dare-ee13a", "title": "EE13a: Games in which every player hides except one - Dictionary of American Regional English, University of Wisconsin-Madison", "url": "https://dare.wisc.edu/surveys/survey-results/1965-1970/childrens-games/ee13a/", "what_it_supports": "U.S. folk names actually elicited for this game type, led by hide-and-seek and hide-and-go-seek, with hy spy, I-spy, whoopy-hide, hide-and-coop, kick the can, and sardines as minority labels.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "etymonline-hide-and-seek", "title": "hide-and-seek - Online Etymology Dictionary (Douglas Harper)", "url": "https://www.etymonline.com/word/hide-and-seek", "what_it_supports": "English dating: hide-and-seek by the 1670s, replacing all-hid (1580s); hide-and-go-seek from 1767; I-spy/hy-spy from 1777; king-by-your-leave from the 1570s.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "round-agreement", "name": "Round agreement", "description": "The commitments that establish which form of hide-and-seek is being played and who takes each role.", "rationale": "The name hide-and-seek alone does not settle discovery, escape, role rotation or completion rules.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-entry", "name": "Roles and entry", "description": "Participation and role assignments within a particular round.", "findings": [ { "id": "seeker-hider-assignment", "name": "Seeker and hider assignment", "description": "Record participating players, their round-specific roles and the procedure for joining or withdrawing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is seeking and who is hiding in this round?", "kind": "definition", "id": "seeker-hider-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "May a player join, switch roles or withdraw after hiding begins, and how is that communicated?", "kind": "action", "id": "seeker-hider-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "variant-rules", "name": "Variant rules", "description": "The selected rules that qualify concealment, discovery and winning.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreed-rule-set", "name": "Agreed rule set", "description": "Record whether the round uses finding alone, tagging, a base or another stated mechanism, together with who agreed to the rules.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does discovery alone resolve a hider, or must a tag, identification or base claim follow?", "kind": "definition", "id": "agreed-rule-set-q01" }, { "text": "Who established these rules, and which disputed or unspecified rules remain unresolved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "agreed-rule-set-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hiding-space-and-concealment", "name": "Hiding space and concealment", "description": "Where players may hide and how they receive an opportunity to conceal themselves.", "rationale": "A hiding place is meaningful only relative to the permitted area and the seeker's access during preparation.", "layers": [ { "id": "spatial-limits", "name": "Spatial limits", "description": "Permitted hiding places, search access and any designated base.", "findings": [ { "id": "legal-hiding-area", "name": "Legal hiding area", "description": "Record the playable boundary, excluded hiding places and any differences between where hiders and seekers may go.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which rooms, outdoor areas or other spaces are inside the hiding and searching boundaries?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "legal-hiding-area-q01" }, { "text": "Which places are prohibited, inaccessible to the seeker or reserved as a base?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "legal-hiding-area-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "concealment-window", "name": "Concealment window", "description": "The preparation procedure that separates hiding from active searching.", "findings": [ { "id": "search-release", "name": "Search release", "description": "Record the hiding interval or counting procedure, restrictions on seeker observation and the signal authorising search.", "questions": [ { "text": "What count, elapsed time or agreed signal ends the opportunity to hide?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "search-release-q01" }, { "text": "What may the seeker observe during hiding, and what must happen before the seeker starts searching?", "kind": "action", "id": "search-release-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "search-and-discovery", "name": "Search and discovery", "description": "The information and events through which concealed players become discovered under the selected rules.", "rationale": "An observation, a suspicion and an accepted discovery can have different effects on play.", "layers": [ { "id": "search-information", "name": "Search information", "description": "What each participant or assisting agent knows and may use during search.", "findings": [ { "id": "location-evidence-and-disclosure", "name": "Location evidence and disclosure", "description": "Record location observations and clues with their observer and time, while keeping disclosure permissions separate from knowledge.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who observed or reported a hider's location, when, and is that information still current?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "location-evidence-and-disclosure-q01" }, { "text": "May an assisting agent reveal this clue or location to the seeker under the agreed rules?", "kind": "action", "id": "location-evidence-and-disclosure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "discovery-resolution", "name": "Discovery resolution", "description": "Assessment of claimed discoveries and any required follow-on action.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-find", "name": "Accepted find", "description": "Record the claimed discovery event, supporting evidence, any dispute and whether the applicable discovery condition was satisfied.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which hider was allegedly found, and what sighting, identification, contact or base event supports the claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-find-q01" }, { "text": "Does this event resolve the hider's status, require a further action or remain disputed?", "kind": "action", "id": "accepted-find-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "round-resolution-and-return", "name": "Round resolution and return", "description": "How active search stops, results are determined and concealed participants return.", "rationale": "Finishing the competitive round and confirming that all hiders have returned are separate decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "completion-and-rotation", "name": "Completion and rotation", "description": "Conditions for ending a round and transferring roles to the next one.", "findings": [ { "id": "round-ending-condition", "name": "Round ending condition", "description": "Record which ending condition occurred, unresolved hiders, any result and the agreed basis for selecting the next seeker.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this round end when all hiders are resolved, a time limit expires, a specified event occurs or participants call it off?", "kind": "definition", "id": "round-ending-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Given the recorded result, who becomes the next seeker, if that decision is determined?", "kind": "action", "id": "round-ending-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stop-signal-and-accounting", "name": "Stop signal and accounting", "description": "Communication with concealed players when play pauses or ends.", "findings": [ { "id": "hider-recall", "name": "Hider recall", "description": "Record the stop or return signal, participant acknowledgements and anyone whose whereabouts remain unresolved after play stops.", "questions": [ { "text": "What signal tells hidden players that play has paused or ended, and where should they return?", "kind": "action", "id": "hider-recall-q01" }, { "text": "Which players have acknowledged the signal or returned, and who remains unaccounted for?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "hider-recall-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": [ "classic one-seeker hide-and-seek (remaining players hide; first found is usually next seeker)", "home-base hide-and-seek (hiders may run in to a designated safe point)", "sardines (one player hides; finders join that hiding place until it is crowded)", "forty-forty / 44 homes (seeker names a spotted hider, who must race to base)", "kick the can (a can is home; captured players are jailed until the can is kicked)", "team hide-and-seek / manhunt (hiders and seekers as sides)", "night or flashlight hide-and-seek", "helper-seeker (found players join the search for those still hidden)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of hide-and-seek 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": [ "Informal child play in houses, yards, playgrounds, streets and parks, taught child-to-child rather than from a rulebook.", "Preschool and family play, including dusk neighbourhood rounds that shade into kick-the-can.", "Developmental-psychology tasks used to observe theory of mind and executive function (children must not peek while 'it').", "Adult recreational competition in the Nascondino World Championship, held in Italy 2010-2017 under Italian hide-and-seek (nascondino) rules.", "Human-robot interaction experiments in which children and robots play hide-and-seek as a joint-attention task." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of hide-and-seek 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": "players in an informal round", "typical_range": "3-12 (playable with 2; usually at least 3)", "unit": "players" }, { "quantity": "hiding-phase count called by the seeker", "typical_range": "10-100 (commonly 20, 50 or 100)", "unit": "count" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of hide-and-seek 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": [ "A hider leaves the agreed space and is not found; the round then depends on a recall call such as 'olly olly oxen free'.", "Hiding in confined or mechanical spaces (chests, appliances, vehicles) with a suffocation or entrapment risk.", "Running or climbing to hiding places, and night play, causing falls, collisions or traffic injury.", "Seeker peeking during the count, which collapses the concealment condition the game is built on.", "Public-space play exposing children to getting lost or to strangers while separated from the group." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of hide-and-seek 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 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hiders to move, change hiding places or assist one another during search?", "Should digital hide-and-seek involving avatars share this model directly or require a specialised extension for visibility and location evidence?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 22 } }, "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. 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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": [ "Pîpê", "Kick the can" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 96 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 hide-and-seek from another, and a hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek?", "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 hide-and-seek?", "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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 hide-and-seek is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek, 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 hide-and-seek 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 } } } }