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Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: perspective\nRegistry id: vr.tr.perspective\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.ACT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q1900281", "registryId": "vr.tr.perspective", "name": "perspective", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1900281/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.perspective", "name": "perspective", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify, compare and responsibly use a perspective by recording whose standpoint it expresses, what it makes salient and how it shapes interpretation and action.", "definition": "A perspective is a standpoint from which an agent perceives, interprets or evaluates a subject, shaped by the agent's position, experience, assumptions and purposes.", "scope_statement": "This model owns perspective as a situated way of attending to, interpreting and evaluating a subject, provisionally adopting this sense pending clarification of the undefined registry entry.", "in_scope": [ "The subject, situation and questions toward which a perspective is directed", "The individual, collective or explicitly constructed standpoint associated with it", "Selections of relevant features, interpretive assumptions and evaluative priorities", "Evidence for attributing a perspective and limits on that attribution", "Relationships between perspectives, including disagreement, overlap and change" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Geometric projection and techniques for depicting depth", "The complete belief system, personality or identity of a perspective holder", "The truth of every proposition considered from a perspective", "Narrative voice and focalisation as formal properties of a literary work", "Individual sensory mechanisms and perceptual disorders", "Formal decision procedures and actions resulting from a perspective" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Unlike a single opinion, a perspective identifies a way of selecting or interpreting features that can organise several judgments about a subject.", "Unlike a physical viewing position, the intended sense includes interpretive relevance or evaluation; a location alone does not establish it.", "Unlike a belief, a perspective need not assert one proposition as true and may be adopted provisionally to explore a situation.", "Unlike a comprehensive worldview, a perspective may apply only to one task, relationship or subject.", "Unlike a bias diagnosis, identifying a perspective does not by itself establish that its judgments are systematically mistaken." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Subject and application context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Referenced subject, situation, task and applicable time", "why_it_matters": "Perspectives can only be compared meaningfully when their subjects and contexts are aligned." }, { "name": "Standpoint bearer", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Individual, named collective, institutional role or constructed observer; attribution may be unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies whose standpoint is represented without assuming that a role or group has one uniform perspective." }, { "name": "Attribution basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-described, explicitly endorsed, expressed in a specified record, analyst-inferred or hypothetical", "why_it_matters": "Separates what a holder has expressed from an agent's reconstruction." }, { "name": "Salience pattern", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Subject features foregrounded, backgrounded or explicitly excluded, with contextual reasons", "why_it_matters": "Captures what the perspective directs attention toward and what its use may overlook." }, { "name": "Interpretive commitments", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked assumptions, categories, comparisons and causal interpretations; explicit or inferred", "why_it_matters": "Makes the interpretive work of the perspective inspectable." }, { "name": "Evaluative priorities", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Relevant values, interests and criteria; ordering recorded only when supported", "why_it_matters": "Helps explain different judgments despite agreement about descriptive evidence." }, { "name": "Adoption status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Endorsed, provisionally entertained, attributed, rejected, superseded or unknown, relative to a specified actor", "why_it_matters": "Prevents exploration of a perspective from being mistaken for endorsement." }, { "name": "Access conditions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Information, experiences and practical positions available or unavailable to the standpoint bearer", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes differences in access from differences in interpretation." } ], "affordances": [ "Elicit a perspective through subject-specific questions about attention, assumptions and priorities.", "Reconstruct a perspective from identified expressions while marking inferential gaps.", "Compare perspectives on a shared case and locate the source of disagreement.", "Explore how a situation appears under another perspective without claiming endorsement or lived experience.", "Identify overlooked considerations and seek relevant counterexamples or additional standpoints.", "Revise or limit use of a perspective when its holder corrects the attribution or its application conditions change." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-instance", "name": "Meaning and instance", "description": "Establish which sense of perspective is intended and what qualifies as an instance.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, and the name can refer to substantially different things.", "layers": [ { "id": "sense-and-boundary", "name": "Sense and boundary", "description": "Record the adopted meaning and its distinction from neighbouring senses.", "findings": [ { "id": "adopted-sense", "name": "Adopted sense", "description": "Record a working definition with its proponent or source and any competing definitions relevant to the use case.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does perspective here mean an interpretive standpoint, a spatial view, a representational technique or another identified sense?", "kind": "definition", "id": "adopted-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Who uses the adopted definition, and which competing definition would change what this model includes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "adopted-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "instance-recognition", "name": "Instance recognition", "description": "Determine whether a candidate expresses a perspective rather than merely a statement or position.", "findings": [ { "id": "organising-standpoint", "name": "Organising standpoint", "description": "Record the subject and the pattern of attention or interpretation that supports treating the candidate as a perspective.", "questions": [ { "text": "What subject does this perspective address, and what makes it a way of approaching that subject rather than one isolated opinion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "organising-standpoint-q01" }, { "text": "Which examples and counterexamples would establish the instance boundary under the adopted definition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "organising-standpoint-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "situated-holder", "name": "Situated holder", "description": "Connect the perspective to a bearer and the conditions from which the subject is encountered.", "rationale": "A perspective attributed without a bearer or context can conceal who is being represented and on what basis.", "layers": [ { "id": "bearer-and-attribution", "name": "Bearer and attribution", "description": "Distinguish expressed, inferred and constructed perspectives.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-warrant", "name": "Attribution warrant", "description": "Record whose perspective this is said to be and the evidence supporting that attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who expressed or endorsed this perspective, or who constructed it as a hypothetical standpoint?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-warrant-q01" }, { "text": "If it is attributed to a collective, what supports that scope and what internal disagreement is documented?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attribution-warrant-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "position-and-access", "name": "Position and access", "description": "Describe relevant access, involvement and constraints without inferring a perspective directly from identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "situational-access", "name": "Situational access", "description": "Record how the bearer's participation, information and experience bear on this particular perspective.", "questions": [ { "text": "What information, experience or practical involvement does the bearer have concerning this subject?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situational-access-q01" }, { "text": "Which claimed links between the bearer's position and their interpretation are evidenced, and which remain hypotheses?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situational-access-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attention-and-interpretation", "name": "Attention and interpretation", "description": "Make explicit how the perspective selects and gives meaning to features of its subject.", "rationale": "Recording a holder's conclusion alone loses the structure that makes it a perspective.", "layers": [ { "id": "foreground-and-background", "name": "Foreground and background", "description": "Capture what receives attention and what falls outside the immediate frame.", "findings": [ { "id": "salience-selection", "name": "Salience selection", "description": "Record foregrounded considerations and distinguish deliberate exclusions from unexamined omissions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which features does this perspective repeatedly treat as central, and in which concrete examples?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "salience-selection-q01" }, { "text": "Which considerations are explicitly excluded, merely unmentioned or demonstrably unavailable to the bearer?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "salience-selection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretive-frame", "name": "Interpretive frame", "description": "Describe the assumptions and categories through which selected features acquire meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-making-commitments", "name": "Meaning-making commitments", "description": "Record how the perspective categorises events and links observations to interpretations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What assumptions, analogies or categories connect the observations to the interpretation offered?", "kind": "definition", "id": "meaning-making-commitments-q01" }, { "text": "What contrasting interpretation of the same observation would expose a commitment specific to this perspective?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-making-commitments-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "judgment-and-comparison", "name": "Judgment and comparison", "description": "Explain evaluative differences and compare perspectives without treating all claims as equally supported.", "rationale": "Perspective differences may concern facts, meanings, priorities or scope and require different responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "evaluative-criteria", "name": "Evaluative criteria", "description": "Identify what counts as desirable, important or acceptable from this standpoint.", "findings": [ { "id": "priority-structure", "name": "Priority structure", "description": "Record evaluative criteria and supported trade-offs while allowing perspectives that offer no explicit ranking.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does this perspective treat as success, harm or an acceptable outcome for the subject at hand?", "kind": "definition", "id": "priority-structure-q01" }, { "text": "Which expressed choices or explanations support any claimed ordering among its priorities?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "priority-structure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "aligned-comparison", "name": "Aligned comparison", "description": "Compare perspectives using a shared subject, context and body of evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "disagreement-location", "name": "Disagreement location", "description": "Locate differences in information, attention, interpretation or evaluation and identify what could resolve them.", "questions": [ { "text": "When both perspectives address the same case, where do their descriptions, interpretations or evaluations diverge?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "disagreement-location-q01" }, { "text": "Which differences could be tested with further evidence, and which require clarification or negotiation of meanings and priorities?", "kind": "action", "id": "disagreement-location-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "adoption-and-revision", "name": "Adoption and revision", "description": "Govern how an agent explores, applies and updates a perspective.", "rationale": "Using a perspective requires distinguishing simulation from endorsement and recognising when attribution or applicability has changed.", "layers": [ { "id": "perspective-taking", "name": "Perspective taking", "description": "Specify what it means to reason provisionally from this standpoint.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-adoption", "name": "Bounded adoption", "description": "Record the purpose, assumptions and limits of adopting the perspective for an exercise or decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "For what task is the agent adopting this perspective, and which assumptions must be held provisionally to do so?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-adoption-q01" }, { "text": "How will the output distinguish the bearer's documented views from the agent's extrapolation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-adoption-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "change-and-correction", "name": "Change and correction", "description": "Track changes in the perspective separately from corrections to its representation.", "findings": [ { "id": "revision-trigger", "name": "Revision trigger", "description": "Record evidence that calls for updating the attribution, limiting applicability or recognising a changed standpoint.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does new evidence show that the bearer changed perspective, that the context changed or that the original attribution was mistaken?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "revision-trigger-q01" }, { "text": "What correction, qualification or suspension of use should follow, and which earlier interpretations are affected?", "kind": "action", "id": "revision-trigger-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 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The registry's intended sense needs checking.", "The listed kinds overlap and do not constitute a standardized taxonomy.", "Philosophy, psychology and narrative studies operationalize perspective differently; perspective-taking performance does not measure a perspective itself." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of perspective 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": [ "Perceptual perspective", "Conceptual or interpretive perspective", "Evaluative perspective", "First-person perspective", "Third-person perspective" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of perspective 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": [ "Comparing stakeholders' interpretations and priorities in decisions.", "Examining how theoretical assumptions shape explanations and evidence.", "Studying how people represent another person's visual access, knowledge or beliefs.", "Interpreting how a narrator's position shapes an account." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of perspective this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Accuracy on a specified perspective-taking task", "typical_range": "0-100; task-dependent and not a universal measure of perspective", "unit": "percent correct" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of perspective 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; 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a perspective can concern perception or interpretation without a definite evaluation." }, { "name": "perspective-taking", "difference": "Perspective-taking is the activity of representing another standpoint; a perspective is the standpoint represented." }, { "name": "worldview", "difference": "A worldview concerns a broad orientation toward reality and life; a perspective may be limited to one subject or situation." }, { "name": "pictorial perspective", "difference": "Pictorial perspective concerns representing spatial depth on a surface; the sense described here concerns an agent's standpoint." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of perspective this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend perspective as an interpretive standpoint, or does its source entry indicate a spatial, visual or other specialised sense?", "Which disciplinary definitions and their proponents should be represented, and where do their criteria for an instance conflict?", "What evidence is sufficient to attribute a shared perspective to a collective without erasing disagreement among its members?", "Which operationalisations can distinguish perspective differences from differences in information, vocabulary or isolated opinion in the intended applications?", "What criteria should distinguish a changed perspective from a context-specific expression of the same perspective?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }, "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 perspective, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to identify, compare and responsibly use a perspective by recording whose standpoint it expresses, what it makes salient and how it shapes interpretation and action.", "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: video game perspective, worm's-eye view, best perspective, El Greco fallacy, colour perspective, aerial perspective, bottom-up perspective, linear perspective, horizon, cavalier projection, curvilinear perspective, angular perspective.", "17 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 59 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 perspective, 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": [ "video game perspective", "worm's-eye view", "best perspective", "El Greco fallacy", "colour perspective", "aerial perspective", "bottom-up perspective", "linear perspective", "horizon", "cavalier projection", "curvilinear perspective", "angular perspective" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 59 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 17 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 perspective from another, and a perspective 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 perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 perspective 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 perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 perspective from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 perspective 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 perspective between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 perspective, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a perspective 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 perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 perspective 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 perspective, 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 perspective and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 perspective consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a perspective 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 perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 perspective 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 perspective 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 perspective 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 perspective 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 perspective?", "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 perspective?", "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 perspective 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 perspective and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 perspective is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a perspective, 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 perspective, 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 perspective 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 } } } }