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"standards_and_regulation": [ "Public holiday laws", "Consumer protection in the shopping season", "Fire safety for decorations" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Presenting one tradition as universal", "Fire from decorations and candles", "Excluding non-celebrants or presenting debates partisanly" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What Christmas is.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "religious", "name": "Religious", "description": "Religious meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "religious-finding", "name": "Religious", "description": "Religious meaning.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does Christmas commemorate, and how do Christian traditions observe it liturgically, in their own terms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Why do dates differ between 25 December and 7 January?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultural", "name": "Cultural", "description": "Cultural celebration.", "findings": [ { "id": "cultural-finding", "name": "Cultural", "description": "Cultural celebration.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is Christmas celebrated as a cultural holiday by people of various beliefs?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How did customs such as trees and gift-giving originate?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "customs", "name": "Customs", "description": "Christmas around the world.", "rationale": "Countries.", "layers": [ { "id": "country", "name": "Country", "description": "Customs by country.", "findings": [ { "id": "country-finding", "name": "Country", "description": "By country.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is Christmas celebrated in this country, such as Iceland, Rwanda, Guam, Iran or Israel, as described by its people?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific tradition?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "food", "name": "Food", "description": "Food and music.", "findings": [ { "id": "food-finding", "name": "Food", "description": "Food and music.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which foods, songs and traditions are associated with Christmas here?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How is Feliz Navidad or other music used?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "plan", "name": "Plan", "description": "Planning and etiquette.", "rationale": "Practical.", "layers": [ { "id": "planning", "name": "Planning", "description": "Planning celebrations.", "findings": [ { "id": "planning-finding", "name": "Planning", "description": "Planning.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can Christmas celebrations be planned, including gifts, meals and travel, on a budget?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which public holiday dates and closures apply here?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "inclusion", "name": "Inclusion", "description": "Inclusivity and etiquette.", "findings": [ { "id": "inclusion-finding", "name": "Inclusion", "description": "Inclusion.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can Christmas be observed inclusively in workplaces and communities with people who do not celebrate it?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which safety rules apply to decorations and candles?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "History and debates.", "rationale": "Neutrality.", "layers": [ { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History of Christmas.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did Christmas develop as a feast and a cultural holiday, according to historians?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How has its commercialisation been debated, with positions attributed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "debates", "name": "Debates", "description": "Public debates.", "findings": [ { "id": "debates-finding", "name": "Debates", "description": "Debates.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the 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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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Christmas, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe Christmas and its religious and cultural observance with attribution, describe customs by country, support planning and etiquette, and present debates and inclusivity neutrally.", "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: Christmas in Iran, Feliz Navidad, Christmas in Israel, Christmas in Guam, Christmas in Rwanda, Christmas in Iceland, Christmas in Hungary, Christmas in Denmark, Christmas in Ireland, Christmas in Mexico, Christmas in Sweden, Christmas in Italy.", "22 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 279 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 Christmas, 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": [ "Christmas in Iran", "Feliz Navidad", "Christmas in Israel", "Christmas in Guam", "Christmas in Rwanda", "Christmas in Iceland", "Christmas in Hungary", "Christmas in Denmark", "Christmas in Ireland", "Christmas in Mexico", "Christmas in Sweden", "Christmas in Italy" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 279 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 22 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 Christmas from another, and a Christmas 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 Christmas, 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 Christmas, 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 Christmas 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 Christmas, 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 Christmas, 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 Christmas 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 Christmas 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 Christmas, 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 Christmas, 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 Christmas 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 Christmas from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Christmas, 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 Christmas, 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 Christmas 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 Christmas 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 Christmas between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Christmas, 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 Christmas, 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 Christmas 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 Christmas, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a Christmas 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 Christmas consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Christmas 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 Christmas, 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 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Christmas 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 Christmas 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 Christmas?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": 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