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meet them.", "scope_statement": "This model owns matriarchy as a proposed or observed pattern of social organisation, including its contested definitions, authority arrangements, reproduction and evidential limits; it does not treat matriarchy as a particular organisation or presume that any named society qualifies.", "in_scope": [ "The operational meaning of matriarchy used in a particular claim", "Women's or mothers' decision rights across political, domestic, economic and ritual domains", "Institutions through which authority is exercised, contested and transferred", "Variation by social position, locality and historical period", "Evidence supporting or challenging the classification of an arrangement as matriarchal" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Matrilineal descent systems considered independently of authority", "Matrilocal residence arrangements considered independently of authority", "Individual women leaders without evidence of an institutional pattern", "Goddess worship or feminine symbolism considered independently of social power", "Feminism and other normative political movements as movements", "The full institutional description of any particular society" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require evidence about institutional authority rather than classifying an arrangement solely from descent through women.", "Distinguish living with a wife's or mother's kin from those relatives having binding decision rights.", "Test whether women's authority persists through officeholder changes rather than depending on one exceptional leader.", "Separate symbolic or ritual prominence from control over decisions, resources and sanctions.", "Declare whether the claim means female predominance, maternal authority or a specified alternative conception; do not silently equate these meanings." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Operational conception", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Female predominance in authority; maternal authority; author-defined conception; 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female leadership more directly than matriarchy.", "Trace how authority passes between officeholders, generations or kin groups.", "Locate disagreements between formal rules, observed practice and participants' accounts.", "Specify further evidence needed before applying or revising the classification." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-classification", "name": "Meaning and classification", "description": "Establish what a particular use of matriarchy claims and where that claim applies.", "rationale": "The model needs an explicit interpretation before it can assess evidence or compare cases.", "layers": [ { "id": "operational-definition", "name": "Operational definition", "description": "Identify the authority pattern intended by the term.", "findings": [ { "id": "criterion-for-matriarchy", "name": "Criterion for matriarchy", "description": "Record the claimant's definition and the conditions that would support or defeat it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does matriarchy here mean women's predominant authority, mothers' authority or another explicitly defined arrangement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "criterion-for-matriarchy-q01" }, { "text": "What observation would make the proposed classification fail under that definition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "criterion-for-matriarchy-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claim-boundaries", "name": "Claim boundaries", "description": "Bound the classification by social level, population and period.", "findings": [ { "id": "extent-of-the-claim", "name": "Extent of the claim", "description": "Record exactly which arrangement is being characterised rather than extending a local observation to an entire society.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which households, kin groups, communities or political institutions does the claim cover, and during what period?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "extent-of-the-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Who applies the label, and how do members of the described population characterise the same arrangement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "extent-of-the-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "distribution-of-authority", "name": "Distribution of authority", "description": "Examine who can make binding decisions and make those decisions effective.", "rationale": "A classification based on authority requires evidence of decision rights and their practical consequences.", "layers": [ { "id": "binding-decision-rights", "name": "Binding decision rights", "description": "Map women's and mothers' authority across consequential decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "domain-specific-control", "name": "Domain-specific control", "description": "Record proposal, approval, veto, appointment and removal rights separately for each relevant domain.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who has final authority over collective rules, dispute settlement, household decisions and external relations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "domain-specific-control-q01" }, { "text": "Can women appoint or remove decision makers, and can other actors override their decisions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "domain-specific-control-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "effective-power", "name": "Effective power", "description": "Assess whether recognised authority determines outcomes in practice.", "findings": [ { "id": "implementation-and-challenge", "name": "Implementation and challenge", "description": "Record how decisions are implemented, resisted and enforced, including differences between titles and practical control.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented disputes show whose decision prevailed when women and other authority holders disagreed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "implementation-and-challenge-q01" }, { "text": "Who controls the sanctions, personnel or resources needed to implement women's decisions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "implementation-and-challenge-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kinship-and-material-control", "name": "Kinship and material control", "description": "Determine how descent, residence and resource arrangements relate to authority.", "rationale": "These arrangements can be mistaken for matriarchy unless their actual connection to decision rights is examined.", "layers": [ { "id": "kinship-authority-link", "name": "Kinship and authority", "description": "Separate kinship membership rules from the powers attached to kin positions.", "findings": [ { "id": "descent-residence-and-office", "name": "Descent, residence and office", "description": "Record whether tracing descent through women or residing near their kin gives women authority, gives authority to other relatives or has another effect.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where descent follows a female line, which relatives actually hold governing or household offices?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "descent-residence-and-office-q01" }, { "text": "What authority follows from residence with a woman's kin, beyond residence itself?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "descent-residence-and-office-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "resource-decision-rights", "name": "Resource decision rights", "description": "Identify control over property, production and distribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "ownership-versus-control", "name": "Ownership versus control", "description": "Distinguish inheritance, nominal ownership, use rights and practical power over resources.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may allocate, transfer or withhold land, income, stored goods and other locally important resources?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "ownership-versus-control-q01" }, { "text": "When women inherit or own resources, what evidence shows whether they control their use and proceeds?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ownership-versus-control-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-and-reproduction", "name": "Membership and reproduction of authority", "description": "Examine which women hold authority and how the arrangement continues or changes.", "rationale": "The authority of particular mothers, elders or lineages must not be generalised to all women or assumed to endure.", "layers": [ { "id": "eligibility-and-exclusion", "name": "Eligibility and exclusion", "description": "Identify the social conditions for holding authority and the groups excluded from it.", "findings": [ { "id": "which-women-hold-power", "name": "Which women hold power", "description": "Record how motherhood, age, lineage, status and locally recognised gender categories shape access to authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which women qualify for authoritative roles, and how do motherhood, seniority or lineage affect eligibility?", "kind": "definition", "id": "which-women-hold-power-q01" }, { "text": "What decision rights do younger women, women without children, outsiders and people outside the eligible gender categories retain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "which-women-hold-power-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "succession-and-change", "name": "Succession and change", "description": "Trace how authority is transmitted and whether it survives changes in personnel and circumstances.", "findings": [ { "id": "institutional-continuity", "name": "Institutional continuity", "description": "Record succession mechanisms and evidence of persistence, interruption or transformation.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are successors selected, and does women's authority persist when a powerful individual leaves office?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "institutional-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented changes in law, livelihood, conflict or external government altered the authority arrangement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "institutional-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-responsible-inference", "name": "Evidence and responsible inference", "description": "Evaluate the basis for a matriarchy claim and constrain conclusions to what the evidence supports.", "rationale": "Labels, symbolic representations and observations of power require different treatment when assessing a disputed social classification.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-interpretation", "name": "Source interpretation", "description": "Distinguish direct evidence of authority from interpretations, representations and repeated assertions.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-social-power", "name": "Evidence for social power", "description": "Record what each source establishes about authority and what inferential steps remain.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does each source document decisions and institutions, report participants' accounts or infer authority from symbols, stories or material remains?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-for-social-power-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence connects maternal imagery, goddess worship or female prestige to binding social authority?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-for-social-power-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-review", "name": "Classification review", "description": "Resolve the current assessment while preserving disagreement and missing evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-assessment", "name": "Conditional assessment", "description": "State whether the bounded claim meets its declared criteria and identify the next justified investigative action.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which criteria are supported, contradicted or still unassessed, and do sources disagree about the same population and period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "conditional-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Should the agent retain the matriarchy classification, narrow its scope, use a neighbouring concept or defer judgment pending specified evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-assessment-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Some scholars use matriarchy for mother-centred, comparatively egalitarian societies rather than female dominance; any application must state its definition.", "Claims that a particular society is or was matriarchal require evidence about actual decision rights across institutions.", "This is a recalled account of a contested social concept, not an identified legal organisation; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of matriarchy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Anthropological discussion of the distribution of authority between genders.", "Historical analysis of theories proposing an early stage of female rule.", "Feminist theory and political imagination concerning societies organised around women's authority." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of matriarchy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Equating descent or inheritance through women with women's political authority.", "Inferring society-wide female rule from female deities, prominent women, or women-headed households.", "Treating speculative accounts of prehistoric matriarchy as established history.", "Applying a single label without examining differences between household, economic, religious, and political authority." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of matriarchy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The Minangkabau of Indonesia and Khasi of northeastern India are frequently discussed in this context, but their matrilineal organisation does not by itself establish matriarchy.", "Descriptions of the Mosuo in southwestern China require distinguishing descent, residence, household leadership, and wider political authority." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of matriarchy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "matriliny", "difference": "Matriliny traces descent through the female line; it does not require women to hold predominant authority." }, { "name": "matrilocality", "difference": "Matrilocality concerns residence with or near the wife's kin after marriage, rather than the allocation of governing authority." }, { "name": "matrifocality", "difference": "Matrifocality describes family organisation centred on mothers, without necessarily implying female authority across society." }, { "name": "patriarchy", "difference": "Patriarchy locates predominant institutional authority in men rather than women." }, { "name": "gender egalitarianism", "difference": "Gender egalitarianism entails broadly equal authority or standing, rather than women's predominance." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of matriarchy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which operational definition of matriarchy should this registry entry adopt, and which alternative scholarly or community uses must it preserve?", "What extent of authority across households, kin groups and political institutions would justify a society-level classification?", "Which proposed historical or contemporary examples satisfy explicit criteria when assessed against sources documenting actual decision rights?", "How should the model represent locally specific gender and kinship categories without imposing an unsuitable women-versus-men classification?", "What evidence can adequately establish authority 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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. 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Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 85 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one matriarchy from another, and a matriarchy 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy 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 matriarchy 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy 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 matriarchy from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a matriarchy, 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy 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 matriarchy 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 matriarchy between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a matriarchy, 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy 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 matriarchy, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a matriarchy 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a matriarchy.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a matriarchy and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a matriarchy, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a matriarchy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a matriarchy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a matriarchy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a matriarchy and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a matriarchy sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a matriarchy, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a matriarchy, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a matriarchy is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What matriarchy is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does matriarchy take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of matriarchy, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in matriarchy and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of matriarchy may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does matriarchy have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a matriarchy 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 matriarchy and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a matriarchy, 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy 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 matriarchy is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a matriarchy, 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 matriarchy, 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 matriarchy 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 } } } }