{ "model": { "rank": 6036, "code": "thing-q192906", "model_id": "vr.tr.revelation", "name": "revelation", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a revelation episode, assess what became newly apparent to whom, and decide how its content may be interpreted, checked or further disclosed.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q192906/", "tier": 2, "score": 63, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Private revelation", "epiphany", "public revelation", "waḥy", "revelation of the Holy Virgin", "general revelation", "special revelation", "Continuous revelation", "direct revelation", "Tanzil", "natural revelation" ], "aliasCount": 11, "merged": 11, "knownIn": 63, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.revelation", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q192906", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192906", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:05:07Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0021012, "turns": 1, "seconds": 15.6, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 75, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b89-f42a-7b01-a663-4b0fc5225306\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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hidden, inaccessible or unrecognised content becomes apparent to a recipient, including the claimed source, mode of encounter, change in awareness and immediate handling constraints; whether self-discovery and claimed divine revelation share this boundary remains provisional.", "in_scope": [ "The specific content revealed and what previously concealed or obscured it", "The recipient-relative transition from unawareness or suspicion to apparent recognition", "The revealing act, encounter or experience and its claimed source", "The distinction between experienced revelation, attributed authority and corroborated content", "Recipient uptake, unresolved interpretation and constraints on further disclosure" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The enduring truth or history of the subject revealed", "General communication channels and routine message delivery", "Complete investigations, experiments and discovery processes", "Religious traditions, doctrines and institutions beyond their role in this episode", "Long-term belief systems and psychological conditions", "Downstream decisions and actions beyond their immediate connection to the revelation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify content that was hidden, inaccessible or unrecognised for a particular recipient; routine receipt of already understood information does not establish revelation.", "Locate a discernible transition in apparent understanding; possession of a secret without any such transition is not a revelation episode.", "Separate making content available from the recipient recognising its significance; a disclosure may occur without producing revelation.", "Distinguish a recipient's sense of certainty or extraordinary significance from independent support for the revealed content.", "For an insight or discovery, identify what makes it a revelation in this context rather than treating every new inference as one." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Revelation mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "deliberate disclosure | accidental exposure | recognition through encounter | inward insight | claimed supernatural communication | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which account of the episode, evidence and handling questions are relevant without endorsing an attributed source." }, { "name": "Prior epistemic position", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unaware | suspected | misinterpreted | knew content but not significance | disputed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Establishes what changed for the recipient and whether anything was revealed to them." }, { "name": "Recipient relation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "content-to-recipient relation, distinguishing direct recipient, witness and later audience", "why_it_matters": "The same content may be revelatory for one person and already familiar to another." }, { "name": "Claimed source attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "attributed source, attribution maker and basis; source may be unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the origin asserted by participants separate from an origin an agent can substantiate." }, { "name": "Recognition interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "elapsed time or bounded interval between encounter and reported recognition; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an immediate revelation from delayed recognition of previously encountered material." }, { "name": "Recipient uptake", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unnoticed | partially understood | accepted | doubted | rejected | reinterpreted | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents exposure, comprehension and acceptance from being treated as the same event." }, { "name": "Content warrant", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unchecked | supported in part | independently corroborated | contested | contradicted | not presently testable", "why_it_matters": "Allows the agent to acknowledge the episode while qualifying what can be asserted about its content." }, { "name": "Further-disclosure constraint", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "public | recipient-limited | consent-dependent | confidential | disputed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Becoming aware of content does not itself establish permission to pass it on." } ], "affordances": [ "Reconstruct what became apparent and compare the recipient's prior and subsequent understanding.", "Separate reported experience, revealed content, source attribution and corroborating evidence.", "Identify whether a disclosure actually reached and was understood by its intended recipient.", "Seek clarification or corroboration appropriate to the kind of content revealed.", "Determine whether further disclosure requires consent, qualification or a narrower audience.", "Reassess an episode when later evidence changes its interpretation or undermines its content." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "hidden-content-and-novelty", "name": "Hidden content and novelty", "description": "What became apparent and why it counts as newly revealed for this recipient.", "rationale": "A revelation requires an identifiable change in access or understanding, not merely an interesting statement.", "layers": [ { "id": "revelatory-content", "name": "Revelatory content", "description": "The content encountered, distinguished from meanings later attached to it.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-interpretation", "name": "Content and interpretation", "description": "Record the proposition, identity, connection or meaning said to have been revealed, preserving ambiguity where necessary.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exactly became apparent, and which parts are the recipient's subsequent interpretation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "content-and-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "What account, quotation or observation supports this description of the revealed content?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "content-and-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "prior-hiddenness", "name": "Prior hiddenness", "description": "The recipient's earlier relation to the content and the barrier that changed.", "findings": [ { "id": "recipient-relative-novelty", "name": "Recipient-relative novelty", "description": "Distinguish concealed information, inaccessible evidence and previously unrecognised significance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Before the episode, did the recipient lack the content, suspect it or know it without recognising its significance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recipient-relative-novelty-q01" }, { "text": "What concealment, access barrier or interpretive obstacle ceased to prevent recognition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recipient-relative-novelty-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "revealing-episode", "name": "Revealing episode", "description": "How and when the content became apparent.", "rationale": "An intentional unveiling, accidental exposure and inward experience require different accounts of agency and event boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "mode-and-agency", "name": "Mode and agency", "description": "The encounter that occasioned revelation and the role of any revealing actor.", "findings": [ { "id": "revealing-mechanism", "name": "Revealing mechanism", "description": "Describe how content reached awareness without presuming that an intentional revealer exists.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did recognition arise through deliberate disclosure, accidental exposure, observation, inference or a reported inward experience?", "kind": "definition", "id": "revealing-mechanism-q01" }, { "text": "If an actor intended to reveal something, what evidence identifies their intended content and audience?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "revealing-mechanism-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-boundaries", "name": "Episode boundaries", "description": "The relationship between initial exposure, recognition and any staged unveiling.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-threshold", "name": "Recognition threshold", "description": "Locate when the content became apparent while allowing gradual or retrospectively reported recognition.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the content first encountered, and when did the recipient report recognising what it meant?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recognition-threshold-q01" }, { "text": "Do successive disclosures form one unfolding revelation or distinct episodes with different revealed content?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognition-threshold-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "source-and-warrant", "name": "Source and warrant", "description": "Where the revelation is said to originate and what supports its content.", "rationale": "Revelatory force, source authority and factual support must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "attributed-origin", "name": "Attributed origin", "description": "Reported and substantiated accounts of the content's source.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-attribution-basis", "name": "Source attribution basis", "description": "Preserve who attributes the revelation to a person, evidence, intuition or supernatural source and on what grounds.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who attributes the revelation to its claimed source, and what grounds do they give?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-attribution-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of the source attribution can be independently examined, and which remain participant claims?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "source-attribution-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-assessment", "name": "Content assessment", "description": "Support and challenges specific to what was revealed.", "findings": [ { "id": "experience-versus-support", "name": "Experience versus support", "description": "Assess the revealed content separately from evidence that a recipient had a compelling experience.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports or contradicts the content beyond the recipient's conviction that it was revealed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "experience-versus-support-q01" }, { "text": "What check could discriminate between competing interpretations, or establish that the claim is not presently testable?", "kind": "action", "id": "experience-versus-support-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recipient-recognition", "name": "Recipient recognition", "description": "Who experienced revelation and how their understanding changed.", "rationale": "Revelation is relative to a recipient; delivery alone does not demonstrate recognition or acceptance.", "layers": [ { "id": "audience-and-access", "name": "Audience and access", "description": "Intended recipients, actual recipients and later audiences.", "findings": [ { "id": "actual-revelatory-reach", "name": "Actual revelatory reach", "description": "Distinguish access to a disclosure from evidence of a revelatory effect.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who directly encountered the revealing content, and who only received a later account?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "actual-revelatory-reach-q01" }, { "text": "For which recipients is there evidence that something previously hidden or unrecognised became apparent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "actual-revelatory-reach-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "understanding-transition", "name": "Understanding transition", "description": "The recipient's reported change in interpretation, belief or recognition.", "findings": [ { "id": "uptake-and-reinterpretation", "name": "Uptake and reinterpretation", "description": "Track comprehension, acceptance and later reinterpretation as distinct responses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changed in the recipient's understanding, and did they accept, doubt or reject the apparent revelation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "uptake-and-reinterpretation-q01" }, { "text": "What later evidence or reflection has changed the recipient's account of what was revealed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "uptake-and-reinterpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-the-revelation", "name": "Handling the revelation", "description": "What may be done with newly apparent content and how mistaken accounts can be corrected.", "rationale": "Revelation can change access to sensitive information or create pressure to act before its meaning and support are settled.", "layers": [ { "id": "redisclosure-boundaries", "name": "Redisclosure boundaries", "description": "The permitted audience and conditions for passing the content onward.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-to-reveal-further", "name": "Permission to reveal further", "description": "Distinguish knowing the content from authority to disclose it to others.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose confidentiality, consent or stated audience restrictions bear on further disclosure?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permission-to-reveal-further-q01" }, { "text": "May the agent share the content now, and with what audience limits or qualifications?", "kind": "action", "id": "permission-to-reveal-further-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-and-correction", "name": "Response and correction", "description": "Immediate responses justified by the revelation's current interpretation and evidential standing.", "findings": [ { "id": "proportionate-next-step", "name": "Proportionate next step", "description": "Connect proposed responses to supported content and preserve a route for correcting premature conclusions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which proposed next steps depend on the content being true, and what must be clarified or checked before taking them?", "kind": "action", "id": "proportionate-next-step-q01" }, { "text": "If the apparent revelation proves mistaken or misleading, which recipients or dependent decisions need an updated account?", "kind": "action", "id": "proportionate-next-step-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "General (natural) revelation", "Special (historical) revelation", "Propositional revelation", "Personal/encounter revelation", "Private revelation (visions, locutions, private locutions)", "Public/canonical revelation (closed canon in many traditions)", "Progressive revelation", "Apocalyptic revelation (unveiling of eschatological events)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of revelation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does this registry entry intend revelation primarily as an act of disclosure, an experience of recognition, a claimed divine communication or a shared category encompassing these?", "Must revealed content be true for an episode to count as revelation, or should the model explicitly include apparent and subsequently discredited revelations?", "What threshold separates revelation from ordinary learning, insight and discovery, especially when no deliberate concealment occurred?", "Should unsuccessful attempts to reveal content belong here or remain solely in a neighbouring disclosure model?", "Which existing Vercy models own disclosure, discovery, insight and religious experience, and where should this entry link to them instead of duplicating their scope?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 11, "questions": 21 } }, "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 revelation, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a revelation episode, assess what became newly apparent to whom, and decide how its content may be interpreted, checked or further disclosed.", "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: Private revelation, epiphany, public revelation, waḥy, revelation of the Holy Virgin, general revelation, special revelation, Continuous revelation, direct revelation, Tanzil, natural revelation.", "11 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 63 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 revelation, 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": [ "Private revelation", "epiphany", "public revelation", "waḥy", "revelation of the Holy Virgin", "general revelation", "special revelation", "Continuous revelation", "direct revelation", "Tanzil", "natural revelation" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 11 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 revelation from another, and a revelation 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 revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 revelation 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 revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 revelation from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 revelation 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 revelation between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 revelation, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a revelation 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 revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 revelation 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 revelation, 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 revelation and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 revelation consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a revelation 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 revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 revelation 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 revelation 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 revelation 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 revelation 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 revelation?", "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 revelation?", "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 revelation 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 revelation and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 revelation is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a revelation, 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 revelation, 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 revelation 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 } } } }