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convention was the latitude calculated?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-position-q01" }, { "text": "Is the quoted latitude calculated, rounded for general use or inherited from a historical source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-position-q02" }, { "text": "Would the task's tolerance require recalculating the position for another date?", "kind": "action", "id": "dated-position-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "daylight-significance", "name": "Daylight significance", "description": "Interpret the circle's relationship to polar day and polar night without overstating local visibility.", "rationale": "The defining astronomical geometry and an observer's experience of sunlight answer different questions.", "layers": [ { "id": "ideal-solar-geometry", "name": "Ideal solar geometry", "description": "Specify the idealized criterion that gives the parallel its daylight significance.", "findings": [ { "id": "solstitial-threshold", "name": "Solstitial threshold", "description": "Make explicit how solstitial solar geometry relates the circle to the onset of continuous daylight or darkness in an idealized model.", "questions": [ { "text": "What assumptions about the Sun, horizon and observer define continuous daylight or darkness here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "solstitial-threshold-q01" }, { "text": "How does the adopted criterion treat the exact circle, including tangency at the horizon?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "solstitial-threshold-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "observed-sunlight", "name": "Observed sunlight", "description": "Identify additional inputs needed for claims about what a person can see.", "findings": [ { "id": "visibility-departures", "name": "Visibility departures", "description": "Keep refraction, solar-disc extent, observer elevation and local horizon effects explicit when interpreting observed midnight sun or polar night.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the visibility claim concern the solar centre, any part of the solar disc or another daylight 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"description": "Compare a location, route crossing or physical marker against the adopted circle, allowing an unresolved result when precision is insufficient.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the location poleward or equatorward of the adopted circle once both positional uncertainties are considered?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "position-relative-to-circle-q01" }, { "text": "What epoch, rounding convention or visitor-access purpose explains the placement of a sign or monument?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "position-relative-to-circle-q02" }, { "text": "Can the agent substantiate the crossing claim, or should it report an approximate or unresolved crossing?", "kind": "action", "id": "position-relative-to-circle-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 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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 polar circle, 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 polar circle, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event 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}, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a polar circle 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 polar circle 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 polar circle, 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 polar circle, by which method, 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worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a polar circle, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a polar circle, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a polar circle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", 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"name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a polar circle is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a polar circle, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a polar circle, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a polar circle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", 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unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a polar circle, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a polar circle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a polar circle is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a polar circle, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a polar circle, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a polar circle 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 polar circle 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", 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agent decide or do once an observation of a polar circle is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a polar circle and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a polar circle is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a polar circle performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a polar circle, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", 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