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"definition-over-slant", "name": "Definition over slant", "description": "Record the convention that establishes diagonal status; a slanted appearance alone does not establish it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does diagonal mean a polygon diagonal, a face diagonal or a space diagonal in this use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "definition-over-slant-q01" }, { "text": "Which source or task specifies this convention, and does it use diagonal merely to mean oblique?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "definition-over-slant-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "endpoint-qualification", "name": "Endpoint qualification", "description": "Tests vertex membership and nonadjacency against the chosen host.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualifying-vertex-pair", "name": "Qualifying vertex pair", "description": "Identify both endpoints as host vertices and establish the incidence conditions required by the adopted definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are both endpoints distinct vertices of the same identified host figure?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualifying-vertex-pair-q01" }, { "text": "Are the endpoints connected by an edge, and which faces, if any, contain both?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualifying-vertex-pair-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "host-incidence-and-inventory", "name": "Host incidence and inventory", "description": "Relates each diagonal to the host's boundary structure and the complete set of qualifying endpoint pairs.", "rationale": "Coordinates alone do not identify polygon adjacency or polyhedral faces, and diagonal counts depend on these relations.", "layers": [ { "id": "boundary-and-face-structure", "name": "Boundary and face structure", "description": "Records the host structure needed to distinguish edges, face diagonals and space diagonals.", "findings": [ { "id": "host-structure-evidence", "name": "Host structure evidence", "description": "Use an explicit boundary order or face incidence record instead of inferring connectivity from the drawing.", "questions": [ { "text": "What cyclic vertex order defines the polygon, or what vertex, edge and face incidences define the polyhedron?", "kind": "definition", "id": "host-structure-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Are self-intersections, holes, repeated vertices or degenerate faces present that require a special convention?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "host-structure-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagonal-enumeration", "name": "Diagonal enumeration", "description": "Identifies qualifying pairs consistently and checks the limits of counting rules.", "findings": [ { "id": "unique-diagonal-inventory", "name": "Unique diagonal inventory", "description": "Treat a diagonal as an unordered qualifying vertex pair and distinguish this combinatorial inventory from geometrically usable diagonals.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which unordered vertex pairs satisfy the adopted diagonal definition after edge pairs are excluded?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "unique-diagonal-inventory-q01" }, { "text": "Does the requested count include every qualifying pair or only diagonals that satisfy an additional interior-containment condition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "unique-diagonal-inventory-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "embedding-and-measurement", "name": "Embedding and measurement", "description": "Records the diagonal's metric geometry and its actual position within the host.", "rationale": "A qualifying vertex pair does not by itself establish length, interior containment or intersection in three dimensions.", "layers": [ { "id": "length-and-direction", "name": "Length and direction", "description": "Determines what can be measured from coordinates, dimensions or constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "metric-evidence", "name": "Metric evidence", "description": "Record sufficient geometric evidence and the metric before calculating a diagonal's length or direction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which endpoint coordinates or host dimensions determine the length, in what metric and units?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "metric-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "If a special formula is used, what establishes its assumptions, such as a rectangle's right angle?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "metric-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "containment-and-contact", "name": "Containment and contact", "description": "Separates diagonal identity from interior placement and boundary contacts.", "findings": [ { "id": "segment-host-position", "name": "Segment-host position", "description": "Test the segment apart from its endpoints for exterior portions, boundary overlap and passage through other vertices.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the segment's relative interior lie inside the host, on its boundary or partly outside it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "segment-host-position-q01" }, { "text": "Does it pass through another host vertex or overlap an edge, and how does the chosen operation handle that case?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "segment-host-position-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagonal-relations-and-use", "name": "Diagonal relations and use", "description": "Determines how diagonals interact and which geometric operations their verified properties support.", "rationale": "Crossing, bisection and subdivision are frequent uses of diagonals, but none follows from the label alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "relations-between-diagonals", "name": "Relations between diagonals", "description": "Tests intersection and special metric relationships without generalising from familiar quadrilaterals.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-diagonal-relations", "name": "Verified diagonal relations", "description": "Record actual intersections, length comparisons, angles and bisection evidence; distinguish spatial relations from their projections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the diagonals actually intersect, share an endpoint, overlap or remain disjoint or skew?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verified-diagonal-relations-q01" }, { "text": "What measurements or established host properties justify claims of equal length, perpendicularity or mutual bisection?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-diagonal-relations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "subdivision-and-inference", "name": "Subdivision and inference", "description": "Connects diagonal properties to triangulation, construction and conditional deductions.", "findings": [ { "id": "operation-preconditions", "name": "Operation preconditions", "description": "Select a diagonal for an operation only after checking the host and containment assumptions that make that operation valid.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can this diagonal subdivide the polygon as intended without leaving its interior or creating prohibited crossings?", "kind": "action", "id": "operation-preconditions-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional host assumptions are required before using the diagonal's measured properties to infer the figure's type or missing dimensions?", "kind": "action", "id": "operation-preconditions-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": [ "No sense is recorded; this account assumes the elementary geometric meaning rather than matrix terminology or an informal slanting orientation.", "For nonconvex polyhedra, a space diagonal need not lie wholly inside the solid; check the intended convention before imposing an interior requirement.", "These are recalled mathematical facts, not findings from sources read for this entry." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of diagonal this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Polygon diagonal", "Face diagonal of a polyhedron", "Space diagonal of a polyhedron" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of diagonal 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": [ "Dividing polygons into triangles for geometric computation and area calculation.", "Checking 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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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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": [ "space diagonal", "face diagonal" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 72 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 diagonal from another, and a diagonal 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal 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 diagonal 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal 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 diagonal from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a diagonal, 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal 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 diagonal 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 diagonal between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies 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recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a diagonal, 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal 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 diagonal 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 diagonal 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 diagonal 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 diagonal 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 diagonal?", "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 diagonal?", "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 diagonal 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 diagonal and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a diagonal, 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal 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 diagonal is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a diagonal, 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 diagonal, 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 diagonal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }