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"Named ethical, religious, philosophical, research or ordinary-language account, with source; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether avarice concerns excess desire, attachment, unjust acquisition, deficient generosity or some combination." }, { "name": "Object of desire", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Money; financial assets; land; other possessions; mixed; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the acquisitive focus and prevents unexamined expansion to every strong desire." }, { "name": "Acquisitive expression", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Seeking more; resisting expenditure or transfer; both; desire without observed conduct; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Separates accumulating resources from attachment to resources already held." }, { "name": "Sufficiency standard", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed desire linked to a stated needs, obligations, security or ethical benchmark", "why_it_matters": "Makes the judgment of excess 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proposed instance against an explicit excess standard and plausible alternative explanations.", "Record acquisitive and retentive patterns separately, including evidence that weakens an attribution.", "Identify missing evidence before describing avarice as a persistent disposition.", "Trace specific consequences to supported conduct and propose voluntary, context-appropriate responses." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-moral-framework", "name": "Meaning and moral framework", "description": "Records which sense of avarice is being used and why its evaluator regards the desire as excessive.", "rationale": "An agent cannot assess avarice consistently while leaving its normative definition implicit.", "layers": [ { "id": "accounts-of-avarice", "name": "Accounts of avarice", "description": "Separates definitions and preserves disagreement between their proponents.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-and-holder", "name": "Definition and holder", "description": "Record the adopted definition, who advances it and whether it concerns desire, attachment, conduct or character.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the cited account mean by avarice, and whose account is it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "definition-and-holder-q01" }, { "text": "Does this account distinguish avarice from greed, covetousness or miserliness, and on what grounds?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "definition-and-holder-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grounds-of-excess", "name": "Grounds of excess", "description": "Makes the evaluative threshold explicit and open to challenge.", "findings": [ { "id": "sufficiency-and-obligation", "name": "Sufficiency and obligation", "description": "Record the benchmark against which wanting or retaining more is judged excessive, including disputed obligations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What level or manner of acquisition would this framework consider sufficient or permissible?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sufficiency-and-obligation-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplies that benchmark, and does it account for the person's needs, dependants and foreseeable insecurity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sufficiency-and-obligation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "acquisition-retention-and-satiation", "name": "Acquisition, retention and satiation", "description": "Describes what is wanted, how acquisition or retention expresses that desire, and whether any stopping point exists.", "rationale": "Avarice must be distinguished through its relationship to possessions rather than inferred from wealth alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "direction-of-desire", "name": "Direction of desire", "description": "Distinguishes seeking additional possessions from resisting their use or transfer.", "findings": [ { "id": "acquisitive-and-retentive-pattern", "name": "Acquisitive and retentive pattern", "description": "Record the desired resources and whether the concern is obtaining more, keeping what is held or both.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which wealth or possessions are sought or retained, and what evidence connects them to the attributed desire?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "acquisitive-and-retentive-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "Does the adopted definition include refusal to spend or give when no further acquisition is sought?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "acquisitive-and-retentive-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "enough-and-more", "name": "Enough and more", "description": "Examines stated goals and responses when those goals are reached.", "findings": [ { "id": "satiation-and-moving-targets", "name": "Satiation and moving targets", "description": "Record whether accumulation serves a bounded purpose and whether the stopping point changes without an evidenced change in need.", "questions": [ { "text": "What outcome would the person regard as enough, and how has that answer changed over time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "satiation-and-moving-targets-q01" }, { "text": "When a stated target was 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"id": "security-frugality-and-stewardship-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence would distinguish those explanations from excessive attachment to wealth?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "security-frugality-and-stewardship-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "persistence-and-operationalisation", "name": "Persistence and operationalisation", "description": "Records the duration, context and measurement basis of an attributed acquisitive pattern.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish an episode from a disposition and a research score from a moral judgment.", "layers": [ { "id": "episodes-and-dispositions", "name": "Episodes and dispositions", "description": "Tracks recurrence and variation without assuming a fixed personal essence.", "findings": [ { "id": "recurrence-and-context", "name": "Recurrence and context", "description": "Record when the pattern appears, where it does not appear and whether changing circumstances explain its course.", "questions": [ { "text": "Across which 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a avarice 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 avarice, 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 avarice, 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 avarice 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 avarice 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 avarice, 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 avarice, 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 avarice 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 avarice from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a avarice, 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 avarice, 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 avarice 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 avarice 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 avarice between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a avarice, 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 avarice, 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 avarice 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 avarice, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a avarice 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 avarice, 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 avarice, 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 avarice 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 avarice 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 avarice 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 avarice 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 avarice 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 avarice?", "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 avarice?", "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 avarice 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 avarice and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a avarice, 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 avarice, 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 avarice 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 avarice is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a avarice, 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 avarice, 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 avarice 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 } } } }