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loans including adjustable-rate mortgages, investment loans, trade and discount credit, and international credit between states and institutions, extended by banks and other lenders on the basis of creditworthiness; credit underpins economies, is regulated for consumer protection and stability, and carries risks of over-indebtedness and default.", "what_it_is_for": "Financing purchases and investment over time.", "affordances": [ "explain kinds and mechanics", "relay regulation", "describe assessment and risks", "route personal decisions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Deferred payment", "Interest and terms", "Creditworthiness", "Regulated lending" ], "appearance": "Not a visible object; loans, cards and agreements.", "visual_identification": [ "Deferred payment arrangement", "Consumer credit, hire purchase, mortgages including adjustable-rate, investment loans, discount and international credit", "A loan is one form of credit; debt is the resulting obligation; equity is ownership 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type or a personal financial decision, which needs an adviser?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanics", "name": "Mechanics", "description": "Mechanics.", "findings": [ { "id": "mechanics-finding", "name": "Mechanics", "description": "Mechanics.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do interest, repayment schedules, adjustable rates and hire purchase work?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific product?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "assess", "name": "Assess", "description": "Assessment and risk.", "rationale": "Practice.", "layers": [ { "id": "creditworthiness", "name": "Creditworthiness", "description": "Creditworthiness.", "findings": [ { "id": "creditworthiness-finding", "name": "Creditworthiness", "description": "Creditworthiness.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do lenders assess creditworthiness through scores, reports and affordability?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "risks", "name": "Risks", "description": "Risks.", "findings": [ { "id": "risks-finding", "name": "Risks", "description": "Risks.", "questions": [ { "text": "What risks do borrowers and lenders face, and how do defaults and credit crises arise?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits credit risk?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulate", "name": "Regulate", "description": "Regulation.", "rationale": "Regulation.", "layers": [ { "id": "consumer", "name": "Consumer", "description": "Consumer protection.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumer-finding", "name": "Consumer", "description": "Consumer.", "questions": [ { "text": "What consumer credit and mortgage protections exist, and where can borrowers get help?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user in financial difficulty, which needs debt advice services?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "prudential", "name": "Prudential", "description": "Prudential regulation.", "findings": [ { "id": "prudential-finding", "name": "Prudential", "description": "Prudential.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do banking rules govern credit provision and stability?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "History and economy.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How has credit developed from ancient lending through banking to modern consumer credit?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the history of credit?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "economy", "name": "Economy", "description": "Credit and the economy.", "findings": [ { "id": "economy-finding", "name": "Economy", "description": "Economy.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does credit drive growth and cycles, with positions attributed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits credit cycle?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should mortgage loan and consumer credit be separate primary entries?", "How should regulatory sources be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific products; should they be split off?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "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 credit, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain credit and its kinds, relay how it works and is regulated from financial and regulatory sources, describe credit assessment and risks in general terms, and route personal financial decisions to qualified advisers without giving individual advice.", "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: hire purchase, adjustable-rate mortgage, international credit, investment loan, mortgage loan, discount credit, Eranos, revolving credit, trade credit, credit lending, line of credit, bank credit.", "41 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 75 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 credit, 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": [ "hire purchase", "adjustable-rate mortgage", "international credit", "investment loan", "mortgage loan", "discount credit", "Eranos", "revolving credit", "trade credit", "credit lending", "line of credit", "bank credit" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 41 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 credit from another, and a credit 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 credit, 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 credit, 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 credit 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 credit, 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 credit, 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 credit 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 credit 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 credit, 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 credit, 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 credit 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 credit from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a credit, 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 credit, 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 credit 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 credit 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 credit between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes 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"text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a credit 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 credit consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a credit 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 credit, 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 credit, 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 credit 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 credit is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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