{ "model": { "rank": 4587, "code": "thing-q184186", "model_id": "vr.tr.original-sin", "name": "original sin", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify, compare and interpret formulations of original sin while preserving their theological context and distinguishing attributed doctrine from claims about particular people.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q184186/", "tier": 2, "score": 74, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 74, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q184186", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184186", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:33:40Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087df-798e-7561-a4ca-785b5e754382\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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differing over inherited guilt, corruption, mortality, and the freedom to respond to grace.", "scope_statement": "This model owns original sin as a Christian theological concept concerning humanity's inherited or originating sinful condition, including tradition-specific accounts of its origin, transmission, consequences and remedy; it does not assume that all traditions define or accept the concept alike.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions distinguishing original sin as an originating transgression from original sin as a resulting human condition", "Accounts of humanity's relation to Adam, the Fall and inherited sinfulness", "Tradition-specific distinctions among guilt, corruption, mortality and deprivation of original righteousness", "Claims about the condition's scope, persistence and relation to personal responsibility", "Doctrinal connections to grace, baptism, salvation and human freedom", "Sources, interpretive history and authority of particular formulations" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Sin in general and classifications of personally committed sins", "The complete narrative, symbolism or historical interpretation of the Fall", "Comprehensive models of salvation, baptism, grace or predestination", "Biological inheritance and empirical theories of human evolution", "Judgments about a named person's guilt, worth or spiritual standing", "Non-Christian accounts of human suffering or moral failure treated as equivalent without evidence" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A formulation concerns an originating or inherited human predicament, rather than only an individual's voluntary wrongdoing.", "Its connection to Adam or the Fall must be recorded explicitly, including whether that connection is historical, representative, symbolic or otherwise interpreted.", "It specifies which consequences are inherited; inherited guilt, damaged capacities and mortality must not be treated as interchangeable claims.", "It can be distinguished from a general claim that humans often behave 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consequences", "why_it_matters": "Makes substantive differences visible without collapsing them into the single word sin." }, { "name": "Account of human participation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Generation or descent; representation; solidarity; imitation; mixed account; disputed; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Records how a formulation connects an originating event or figure to people who did not personally perform the act." }, { "name": "Relation to personal culpability", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Inherited culpability affirmed; culpability distinguished from inherited condition; culpability denied; disputed; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Keeps claims about inherited conditions separate from claims about responsibility for chosen acts." }, { "name": "Doctrinal standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Authoritative teaching; confessional commitment; theological proposal; disputed interpretation; rejected position; undetermined, relative to a named community and date", "why_it_matters": "Supports appropriate attribution and establishes how much authority an agent may assign to a formulation." }, { "name": "Remedy and residual effects", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named remedy linked separately to each consequence it is said to remove, transform or leave unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Avoids assuming that remission, healing and elimination of every consequence mean the same thing." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a passage as addressing an originating sin, an inherited condition, personal sin or an ambiguous combination.", "Compare formulations by the consequences they affirm and their accounts of human participation.", "Trace a doctrinal claim to a source and distinguish the source's wording from later interpretation.", "Explain a formulation's implications for freedom, responsibility and remedy within its stated tradition.", "Flag unsupported equivalences between original sin, ancestral sin, biological inheritance and individual wrongdoing.", "Generate targeted research questions where a formulation leaves transmission, authority or exceptions unclear." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "original-act-and-inherited-condition", "name": "Original act and inherited condition", "description": "Identifies what a formulation calls original sin and which human predicament it describes.", "rationale": "The same term can refer to an originating act or its alleged consequences, and those senses require separate treatment.", "layers": [ { "id": "originating-sense", "name": "Originating sense", "description": "Records the formulation's use of Adam, the Fall and an initial transgression.", "findings": [ { "id": "referent-of-original", "name": "Referent of original", "description": "Establish whether the term identifies an act, a condition or a deliberately connected pair.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this source define original sin as an originating transgression, a resulting 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}, { "id": "participation-and-responsibility", "name": "Participation and responsibility", "description": "Captures how the condition extends to humanity and how it relates to personal agency.", "rationale": "A model must explain the claimed connection between an originating sin and people who did not personally commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "transmission-and-scope", "name": "Transmission and scope", "description": "Records the account of shared participation and its stated limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "human-participation-account", "name": "Human participation account", "description": "Identify how people are said to participate in the condition without translating theological language into an unsupported biological mechanism.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the source explain participation through descent, representation, solidarity, imitation or another relation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "human-participation-account-q01" }, { "text": "Who is included in the 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"grace-remedy-and-persistence", "name": "Grace, remedy and persistence", "description": "Maps what is said to address original sin and what remains afterward.", "rationale": "The condition cannot be interpreted adequately without distinguishing its proposed remedy from continuing effects.", "layers": [ { "id": "remedial-relations", "name": "Remedial relations", "description": "Connects the condition's components to the roles attributed to Christ, grace, faith and baptism.", "findings": [ { "id": "remedy-by-consequence", "name": "Remedy by consequence", "description": "Match each claimed remedy to the specific component of original sin it addresses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What roles does this formulation assign to Christ, grace, faith and baptism in addressing original sin?", "kind": "definition", "id": "remedy-by-consequence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the source describe the remedy as forgiveness, remission, healing, restored righteousness or another change?", "kind": "boundary", 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}, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a original sin 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 original sin 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 original sin, 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 original sin, by which method, 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"id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a original sin, 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 original sin, 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 original sin 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 original sin, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a original sin 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 original sin, 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 original sin, 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 original sin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a original sin says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a original sin contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a original sin, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a original sin, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a original sin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a original sin and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a original sin, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a original sin, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a original sin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What original sin studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does original sin take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does original sin establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where original sin is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark original sin as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place original sin, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a original sin 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 original sin and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a original sin, 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 original sin, 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 original sin 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 original sin is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a original sin, 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 original sin, 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 original sin 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 } } } }