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social community concept, particularly the Muslim community, including contextual meanings, belonging, solidarity, internal plurality, and claims of collective authority; it does not presume a single incorporated organisation, government, or membership register.", "in_scope": [ "The meaning and extent of ummah in a particular text, community, or public claim", "Attributed and self-described belonging, including contested boundaries", "Relationships between collective Muslim identification and local, national, linguistic, or doctrinal affiliations", "Practices and obligations explicitly understood as expressing solidarity within the ummah", "Claims to speak for, govern, mobilise, or act on behalf of the ummah" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Islamic doctrine and jurisprudence considered independently of community boundaries or collective obligations", "The legal identity, assets, personnel, and administration of particular Muslim organisations", "The territory, citizenship, and institutions of states or proposed political systems", "Individual religious belief and practice beyond their relevance to expressed belonging", "Population statistics that do not specify how the counted population relates to the intended meaning of ummah" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Determine whether the referent is a community constituted through religious identification or a particular organisation with a charter and governing body; these require different models.", "Test whether the invoked community extends across citizenship, ethnicity, and territory rather than assuming it coincides with a nation or state.", "Distinguish an appeal to collective unity from evidence that members agree, coordinate, or accept common leadership.", "Separate belonging to the ummah from membership in a mosque, association, school of thought, or political movement.", "Identify the contextual sense of ummah before equating every occurrence with the worldwide Muslim community." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": 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"kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named local, doctrinal, linguistic, national, or diasporic communities and their attributed relationship to the invoked whole", "why_it_matters": "Preserves internal differences without assuming they negate shared identification." }, { "name": "Representation basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented mandate from a bounded constituency | recognition by specified audiences | self-asserted claim | contested claim | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Constrains whose assent, interests, or authority an agent may attribute to a speaker." }, { "name": "Solidarity enactment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Expressed aspiration | recurring practice | coordinated initiative | disputed obligation | not established", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes language of solidarity from demonstrated cooperation." }, { "name": "Population estimate basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Explicit definition, reference date, geographic coverage, collection method, and uncertainty; otherwise unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a count of Muslims or organisational members from silently becoming an exact count of the ummah." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate an occurrence of ummah and attach its meaning to the speaker, source, and historical context.", "Map overlapping communities and disputed boundaries while preserving attributed viewpoints.", "Assess whether a claim about unity or solidarity is supported by observed practices.", "Evaluate the scope of a representative claim before attributing consent or commitments to a wider community.", "Identify appropriate organisations or individuals for a proposed initiative using their actual mandates and consent.", "Flag demographic, political, or theological assertions that exceed their evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-reference", "name": "Meaning and reference", "description": "Establish what a particular invocation of ummah 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addressed by the invocation.", "findings": [ { "id": "invoked-whole", "name": "Invoked whole", "description": "Distinguish a universal community claim from a bounded community or rhetorical audience.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this use address Muslims generally, a specified community, or an audience whose extent remains unstated?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "invoked-whole-q01" }, { "text": "What time period and geographic qualifications limit the claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "invoked-whole-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "belonging-and-boundaries", "name": "Belonging and boundaries", "description": "Represent inclusion and exclusion as situated claims with identifiable authors.", "rationale": "An agent must not confuse self-identification, social recognition, and theological judgments about membership.", "layers": [ { "id": "grounds-of-belonging", "name": "Grounds of belonging", "description": "Separate the different bases on which someone is described as belonging.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-membership", "name": "Attributed membership", "description": "Preserve who identifies a person or community with the ummah and on what grounds.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is belonging self-described, recognised by a named community, or assigned by an external observer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-membership-q01" }, { "text": "What criteria does that claimant use, and are those criteria accepted by the people being described?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contested-inclusion", "name": "Contested inclusion", "description": "Handle disagreement without converting one party's position into a universal verdict.", "findings": [ { "id": "boundary-disputes", "name": "Boundary disputes", "description": "Record competing inclusion or exclusion claims and their practical consequences.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which groups or authorities dispute this inclusion, and what sources document their positions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "boundary-disputes-q01" }, { "text": "How should an agent describe or involve the affected community without endorsing a contested exclusion?", "kind": "action", "id": "boundary-disputes-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "unity-and-plurality", "name": "Unity and plurality", "description": "Relate shared community identification to differences within the invoked whole.", "rationale": "The model must support claims of common belonging without inferring uniform belief, interests, or political preferences.", "layers": [ { "id": "overlapping-affiliations", "name": "Overlapping affiliations", "description": "Locate particular communities within multiple forms of affiliation.", "findings": [ { "id": "particular-and-shared-identities", "name": "Particular and shared identities", "description": "Record how participants relate their local or other affiliations to identification with the ummah.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do the participants describe the relationship between their particular community and the wider ummah?", "kind": "definition", "id": "particular-and-shared-identities-q01" }, { "text": "Which doctrinal, national, ethnic, or linguistic distinctions matter for this specific decision?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "particular-and-shared-identities-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-of-unity", "name": "Evidence of unity", "description": "Distinguish normative appeals from observed agreement or coordination.", "findings": [ { "id": "unity-claim-support", "name": "Unity claim support", "description": "Assess the evidence and limits of assertions that the ummah shares a position or acts together.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is unity being expressed as an ideal, a shared identification, agreement on an issue, or coordinated action?", "kind": "definition", "id": "unity-claim-support-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes participation, disagreement, and coverage beyond the speakers making the claim?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "unity-claim-support-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-representation", "name": "Authority and representation", "description": "Assess claims to interpret interests, speak collectively, or exercise authority.", "rationale": "Invoking the ummah does not by itself establish a mandate to bind the people invoked.", "layers": [ { "id": "representative-claims", "name": "Representative claims", "description": "Identify speakers, constituencies, and the grounds of claimed authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-and-recognition", "name": "Mandate and recognition", "description": "Distinguish a documented constituency mandate from broader religious, moral, or political claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who claims to speak for the ummah, and what kind of authority do they assert?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mandate-and-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "Which constituency recognises or authorises that role, and where is its claimed reach disputed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mandate-and-recognition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collective-action-permissions", "name": "Collective action permissions", "description": "Connect proposed action to actors with actual authority and consent.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-of-commitment", "name": "Limits of commitment", "description": "Prevent a statement made in the name of the ummah from becoming an unsupported commitment attributed to all Muslims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identifiable actors can authorise, resource, or consent to the proposed action?", "kind": "action", "id": "limits-of-commitment-q01" }, { "text": "What may the agent communicate or coordinate within those mandates, and which broader commitments remain unauthorised?", "kind": "action", "id": "limits-of-commitment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "solidarity-and-continuity", "name": "Solidarity and continuity", "description": "Track how community identification is enacted and how its meaning changes over time.", "rationale": "A useful model must connect appeals to belonging with concrete practices while preserving historical differences.", "layers": [ { "id": "enacted-obligations", "name": "Enacted obligations", "description": "Examine practices explicitly linked by participants to responsibility toward the ummah.", "findings": [ { "id": "solidarity-practices", "name": "Solidarity practices", "description": "Record attributed obligations and their expression through assistance, education, advocacy, or other documented cooperation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practices do participants explicitly connect to belonging to the ummah, and what obligation do they say those practices fulfil?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "solidarity-practices-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence shows who participates, who benefits, and whether the practice continues beyond an initial appeal?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "solidarity-practices-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-continuity", "name": "Historical continuity", "description": "Keep historical uses and contemporary reinterpretations distinguishable.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-in-community-conception", "name": "Change in community conception", "description": "Track changes in claimed boundaries, obligations, and authority without presuming a single unchanged institutional identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated sources support the community conception at each period being compared?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "change-in-community-conception-q01" }, { "text": "What establishes continuity between these uses, and which differences make direct comparison misleading?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "change-in-community-conception-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 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"evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Expressing a shared Muslim identity that extends beyond nationality and ethnicity.", "Invoking mutual responsibility, charitable support, and solidarity among Muslims.", "Framing debates about religious authority, communal unity, and political belonging." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of ummah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating the ummah as a single incorporated organisation with uniform governance or an authorised spokesperson.", "Assuming shared religious identity implies agreement on theology, law, or 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evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Islam", "difference": "Islam is the religious tradition; the ummah is the community of people associated with it." }, { "name": "caliphate", "difference": "A caliphate is a political institution or polity headed by a caliph; the ummah does not require a single political government." }, { "name": "nation-state", "difference": "A nation-state has territorial sovereignty and legally defined citizenship; membership in the Muslim ummah is understood primarily through religious belonging." }, { "name": "mosque congregation", "difference": "A mosque congregation consists of people associated with a particular place of worship; the Muslim ummah extends beyond any congregation." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of ummah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend ummah specifically as the worldwide Muslim community, or also historical and other contextual senses of the term?", "Which primary texts, translations, and scholarly interpretations should establish the model's initial semantic boundaries?", "How should competing accounts of belonging be represented across traditions without making the model a theological adjudicator?", "Which observable indicators can support assessments of solidarity or collective identification without treating organisational activity as representative of everyone?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept, and which neighbouring models should own its relationships to religious community, nation, and political authority?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 15, 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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 ummah, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to identify uses of ummah, assess the community and obligations being invoked, and distinguish legitimate collective action from unsupported claims of representation.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 59 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 ummah, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "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. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 59 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 ummah from another, and a ummah 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 ummah, 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 ummah, 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 ummah 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 ummah, 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 ummah, 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 ummah 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 ummah 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 ummah, 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 ummah, 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 ummah 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 ummah from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a ummah, 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 ummah, 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 ummah 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 ummah 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 ummah between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a ummah, 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 ummah, 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 ummah 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 ummah, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a ummah 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 ummah, 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 ummah, 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 ummah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a ummah.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a ummah and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a ummah, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a ummah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a ummah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a ummah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a ummah and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a ummah sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a ummah, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a ummah, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a ummah is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What ummah is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does ummah take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of ummah, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in ummah and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of ummah may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does ummah have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a ummah 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 ummah and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a ummah, 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 ummah, 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 ummah 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 ummah is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a ummah, 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 ummah, 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 ummah 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 } } } }