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subversion, or political agitation, rather than by open military action.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the alleged or evidenced fifth-column relationship among internal participants, a host, and an adversary, including concealed alignment, coordinated assistance, operational effects, attribution uncertainty, and constraints on response.", "in_scope": [ "The host boundary and participants' position within it", "The adversary allegedly assisted and the conflict or contest connecting it to the host", "Evidence of concealed alignment, coordination, and material assistance", "Use of internal access to undermine the host or enable adversary operations", "The distinction between accusation, suspected activity, and substantiated activity", "Proportionate responses to evidenced conduct and correction of unsupported attribution" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The adversary's overall military strategy or campaign", "The full organization and governance of intelligence services", "Ordinary political opposition, protest, or ideological disagreement without evidenced adversary assistance", "General insider misconduct motivated solely by personal gain", "Ethnic, religious, national, or migrant populations treated as collective security categories", "Detailed criminal adjudication or operational planning for surveillance and counterintelligence" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Participants occupy an internal position in the host whose security or functioning they allegedly undermine; an exclusively external attack does not satisfy this condition.", "The account identifies an adversary and evidence of assistance to it; unpopular beliefs, foreign contacts, or criticism of the host do not by themselves establish that relationship.", "The alleged alignment or adversary-serving purpose is concealed or misrepresented; an openly declared opposing organization requires a separate boundary assessment.", "Evidence connects participants through a collective pattern, shared purpose, or coordination; one isolated insider act does not automatically establish a fifth column.", "An accusation is recorded separately from its supporting evidence, allowing the agent to represent the use of the label without endorsing it." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Assessment status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed allegation | under review | supported under stated criteria | contradicted | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a politically charged label from becoming an assumed fact." }, { "name": "Host and internal position", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified host linked to participants through membership, residence, employment, office, or access", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the internal position on which the concept depends." }, { "name": "Adversary relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "alleged or evidenced beneficiary, with the relevant conflict and time period specified", "why_it_matters": "Separates assistance to an adversary from generic disloyalty or misconduct." }, { "name": "Alignment evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "unknown | attributed by others | expressed intent | demonstrated cooperation | evidenced direction; categories may coexist", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes accusations, voluntary assistance, and externally directed activity." }, { "name": "Collective organization", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "unestablished | shared purpose without demonstrated coordination | informal coordination | organized network", "why_it_matters": "Tests whether the case concerns a collective phenomenon rather than unrelated acts." }, { "name": "Concealment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "unknown | alignment concealed | coordination concealed | purpose concealed | openly declared", "why_it_matters": "Locates what makes the alleged internal assistance covert." }, { "name": "Assistance mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "information transfer | sabotage | logistical support | access facilitation | coordinated deception | other evidenced mechanism", "why_it_matters": "Connects the label to specific conduct that can be examined." }, { "name": "Operational state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unknown | preparing | active | inactive | disrupted | ended, with observation date", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes historical attribution from a current capacity to act." }, { "name": "Demonstrated effect", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "incident-specific quantities such as affected assets, outage duration, or verified disclosures, with units and attribution limits", "why_it_matters": "Separates actual consequences from feared or claimed influence." }, { "name": "Evidential support", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "unsupported | single-source | independently corroborated | materially disputed, assessed per claim", "why_it_matters": "Keeps certainty attached to individual claims rather than to the group label." } ], "affordances": [ "Record an allegation without classifying its subjects as a confirmed fifth column.", "Test a case against internal-position, adversary-assistance, concealment, and collective-activity criteria.", "Connect attributed acts to participants, adversary beneficiaries, evidence, and alternative explanations.", "Assess whether internal access creates a current, evidenced opportunity for harm.", "Identify authorized protective responses to specific conduct and specify the evidence required before escalation.", "Revise or withdraw attribution when claims are contradicted, including correcting downstream records." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "britannica-fifth-column", "title": "Fifth column", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/fifth-column", "what_it_supports": "Standard historical definition, 1936 Madrid coinage under Mola, and later wartime usage for clandestine enemy supporters.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikidata-q282656", "title": "fifth column (Q282656)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q282656", "what_it_supports": "Canonical identifier, aliases (columnist, fifth columnist), and classification as a group of humans / social phenomenon.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "historynet-origin-of-fifth-column", "title": "The Origin of the Term 'Fifth Column'", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Spanish Civil War origin (four Nationalist columns plus a hidden column in Madrid), Hemingway's play, and spread of the phrase into WWII political vocabulary.", "url_status": "dead" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "host-adversary-boundary", "name": "Host-adversary boundary", "description": "Establishes who is inside what host, and which adversary the alleged activity assists.", "rationale": "Without these relationships, fifth column becomes an unbounded synonym for an unwelcome group.", "layers": [ { "id": "internal-position", "name": "Internal position", "description": "Examines participants' actual position within the host.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-of-inside-status", "name": "Basis of inside status", "description": "Records the access or participation that makes alleged assistance internal.", "questions": [ { "text": "What host is allegedly undermined, and what makes each relevant participant internal to it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-of-inside-status-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes that position during the alleged activity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-of-inside-status-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adversary-and-contest", "name": "Adversary and contest", "description": "Identifies the beneficiary and the context in which it opposes the host.", "findings": [ { "id": "specified-adversary-benefit", "name": "Specified adversary benefit", "description": "Tests whether the account concerns assistance to a particular adversary.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is the alleged adversary, and in what conflict or contest does it oppose the host?", "kind": "definition", "id": "specified-adversary-benefit-q01" }, { "text": "What connects the alleged acts to assistance for that adversary rather than merely disadvantage to the host?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "specified-adversary-benefit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "concealed-collective-alignment", "name": "Concealed collective alignment", "description": "Examines shared purpose, cooperation, and concealment without presuming centralized control.", "rationale": "The model must distinguish a covert internal grouping from isolated misconduct or an openly opposing movement.", "layers": [ { "id": "collective-connection", "name": "Collective connection", "description": "Examines whether the attributed participants form a meaningful collective.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-of-shared-activity", "name": "Evidence of shared activity", "description": "Separates demonstrated cooperation from similarities of belief or identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence links participants through shared adversary-serving purpose or coordinated acts?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-of-shared-activity-q01" }, { "text": "Which attributed participants lack evidence of involvement and should remain outside the assessed grouping?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-of-shared-activity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "concealed-purpose-and-direction", "name": "Concealed purpose and direction", "description": "Distinguishes hidden alignment from privacy, and voluntary assistance from external direction.", "findings": [ { "id": "nature-of-covert-alignment", "name": "Nature of covert alignment", "description": "Records what was concealed and what is known about the adversary's involvement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What alignment, purpose, or cooperation was concealed, and what evidence distinguishes that concealment from ordinary privacy?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "nature-of-covert-alignment-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence show adversary direction, voluntary cooperation, or only an 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attribution, and its adversary-serving purpose separately?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-assistance-pathway-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "effects-and-current-capacity", "name": "Effects and current capacity", "description": "Distinguishes completed harm, unsuccessful attempts, and remaining capability.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-impact-and-persistence", "name": "Observed impact and persistence", "description": "Assesses attributable consequences and whether the means of assistance remain available.", "questions": [ { "text": "What effects are observed, in what units and time window, and how confidently can they be attributed to the assessed activity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-impact-and-persistence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence shows that relevant access, cooperation, or capability remains active, has ceased, or is unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-impact-and-persistence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-and-contestation", "name": "Attribution and contestation", "description": "Examines who applies the label, the quality of their evidence, and competing explanations.", "rationale": "Fifth-column accusations can themselves shape conflict and must remain distinguishable from established activity.", "layers": [ { "id": "accusation-provenance", "name": "Accusation provenance", "description": "Tracks the origin and evidential basis of the classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-and-source-separation", "name": "Claim and source separation", "description": "Keeps the claimant's interpretation separate from underlying observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who called the group a fifth column, when, and under what stated criteria?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-and-source-separation-q01" }, { "text": "Which claims rest on independently corroborated observations, and which repeat a common original allegation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-and-source-separation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "alternative-explanations", "name": "Alternative explanations", "description": "Tests whether the evidence supports other accounts of the conduct.", "findings": [ { "id": "disconfirming-and-exclusion-tests", "name": "Disconfirming and exclusion tests", "description": "Examines dissent, coincidence, coercion, personal gain, and misattribution as relevant alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Could the observed conduct be better explained by independent dissent, coincidence, coercion, personal gain, or mistaken attribution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "disconfirming-and-exclusion-tests-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would disconfirm the fifth-column interpretation or narrow the set of attributed participants?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "disconfirming-and-exclusion-tests-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-and-reassessment", "name": "Response and reassessment", "description": "Connects assessed conduct to justified protective action and revisable conclusions.", "rationale": "An agent must be able to act on evidenced risks without treating a contested label as authority for collective punishment.", "layers": [ { "id": "conduct-based-response", "name": "Conduct-based response", "description": "Evaluates protective options against specific access or activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "authorized-proportionate-action", "name": "Authorized proportionate action", "description": "Records the authority, evidential threshold, and expected effect of a proposed response.", "questions": [ { "text": "What authorized protective action addresses the evidenced conduct or exposed access, and what threshold must be met before taking it?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorized-proportionate-action-q01" }, { "text": "How will the response avoid extending attribution or restrictions to people solely because they share an identity, affiliation, or viewpoint?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authorized-proportionate-action-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "revision-and-correction", "name": 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}, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "No technical standard defines 'fifth column' as a legal status; the phrase is a political-military metaphor, not a statutory category.", "National treason, espionage, and sabotage statutes (for example U.S. 18 U.S.C. §§ 792-799 and 2381; comparable offences in other criminal codes) are the laws actually applied when alleged fifth-column activity is prosecuted.", "International humanitarian law (Hague Regulations; Geneva Conventions III and IV, ICRC) distinguishes combatants, spies, saboteurs, and civilians; a 'fifth columnist' may fall under one of those statuses depending on conduct, not on the label.", "Occupation criminal law and collaboration statutes (for example post-1944 French épuration ordinances; similar collaborator laws in the Low Countries and Norway) historically governed locals who aided an occupying enemy." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of fifth column this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Coined in the Spanish Civil War (1936) when Nationalist general Emilio Mola was reported to have said that four columns would advance on Madrid and a fifth would rise inside the city.", "Used in Allied and Axis propaganda in 1939-45 to describe, and often to smear, refugees, Jews, resident aliens, and political opponents as hidden enemy agents.", "Invoked after invasions and occupations (Norway 1940, Low Countries, France, Yugoslavia) both for genuine collaboration networks and as a retrospective explanation of sudden collapse.", "Still used in political speech and security analysis for alleged foreign-aligned elites, diaspora groups, or party factions (for example Cold War 'communist fifth column' charges; later uses against ethnic minorities in interstate conflicts).", "Appears in intelligence, counter-subversion, and counterintelligence doctrine as a shorthand for insider threat aligned with an external adversary, not as a formal order-of-battle term." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of fifth column this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Number of alleged or identified members of a named fifth-column network", "typical_range": "from a handful of agents to tens of thousands in wartime internment or collaboration cases; often unmeasured and politically inflated", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Share of a target population treated as suspect under a fifth-column frame", "typical_range": "typically a small clandestine minority if real; wartime internment sometimes covered a large fraction of an ethnic or refugee group", "unit": "percent of the named group" }, { "quantity": "Documented sabotage or intelligence incidents attributed to the group", "typical_range": "often 0-dozens of verified cases versus hundreds of rumoured ones in a campaign", "unit": "incidents" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of fifth column this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "False accusation: the label is used to justify internment, deportation, pogroms, or political purges of people who are not acting for an enemy.", "Panic and rumour: fifth-column scares produce hoaxes, friendly-fire incidents, and collapse of civil-military trust (widely documented in 1940 Western Europe).", "Real sabotage and intelligence: genuine insider networks can disable infrastructure, leak plans, or open cities, which is the original military hazard.", "Self-fulfilling radicalisation: treating a minority as a fifth column can push some members toward the external power they were accused of serving.", "Legal overreach: emergency internment and conspiracy prosecutions based on identity or opinion rather than acts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of fifth column this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Spanish origin (quinta columna) remains the etymon; English 'fifth column' and French 'cinquième colonne' are calques from 1936-39 reporting.", "In German WWII usage, 'fünfte Kolonne' mixed real Abwehr sabotage concepts with antisemitic and anti-refugee propaganda.", "In the Soviet Union and later Eastern Bloc, analogous charges were framed as 'wreckers', 'rootless cosmopolitans', or 'agents of imperialism' more often than as 'fifth column'.", "In the Middle East and South Asia the phrase is commonly applied to resident minorities accused of loyalty to Israel, India, Pakistan, or Iran, with highly localised targets.", "Nordic and Low Countries memory of 1940 still ties the term to Quisling-style collaboration; in the United States it is more often a partisan metaphor than a military-historical category." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of fifth column this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Spy / intelligence agent", "difference": "A spy is an individual (or small professional service) collecting information; a fifth column is a resident group whose loyalty is aligned with the enemy and whose work may include sabotage and political subversion, not only intelligence." }, { "name": "Collaborator (occupation)", "difference": "Collaboration is open or semi-open cooperation with an already occupying power; a fifth column is classically clandestine and pre-positioned before, or during, the enemy's main advance." }, { "name": "Quisling / puppet regime", "difference": "A quisling is a named leader or government that takes power under the enemy; a fifth column is the supporting underground or social base, not the installed authority itself." }, { "name": "Partisan / resistance", "difference": "Partisans fight an occupier from inside the country on behalf of their own side; a fifth column works for the external enemy against its host society. Direction of loyalty is the test." }, { "name": "Fifth service / fifth estate (journalism)", "difference": "Unrelated numerical metaphors; 'fourth/fifth estate' names media or online publics, not enemy insiders. Co-occurrence of 'fifth' is the only overlap." }, { "name": "Trojan horse / sleeper cell", "difference": "A sleeper cell is a small covert unit waiting for orders; a fifth column is broader and often social or political, not only a compartmented terrorist or sabotage cell." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of fifth column this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend the term only for internal assistance to an external wartime enemy, or also for adversaries in other forms of conflict?", "What minimum collective organization is required, and can loosely connected sympathizers qualify without demonstrated coordination?", "Must participants knowingly intend to assist the adversary, and how should coerced or unwitting assistance be classified?", "How much concealment is necessary, and can an openly aligned internal organization fall within the intended scope?", "Which existing Vercy models cover espionage, insider threats, collaboration, political opposition, and accusations, and where should this entry link to them?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "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 fifth column, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to assess whether an internally situated group covertly assists an adversary against its host community or institution, distinguish substantiated activity from accusation, and identify justified responses.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 60 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 fifth column, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "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": [], "standing": "Described in 60 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 fifth column from another, and a fifth column 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column 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 fifth column 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column 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 fifth column from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a fifth column, 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column 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 fifth column 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 fifth column between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a fifth column, 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column 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 fifth column, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a fifth column 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column 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 fifth column 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 fifth column 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 fifth column 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 fifth column 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 fifth column?", "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 fifth column?", "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 fifth column 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 fifth column and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a fifth column, 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column 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 fifth column is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a fifth column, 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 fifth column, 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 fifth column 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 } } } }