{ "model": { "rank": 6022, "code": "thing-q208450", "model_id": "vr.tr.panic", "name": "panic", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a reported or suspected episode of panic, assess its course and effects on action, and identify appropriate support without assuming a diagnosis.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q208450/", "tier": 2, "score": 63, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Satanic panic", "social panic", "panic attack", "Satanic panic in Finland" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 63, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.panic", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q208450", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208450", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:58:42Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00955196, "turns": 1, "seconds": 98.5, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 156.1, "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: 01a07b82-3293-7290-a894-7c6500216ca4\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: panic\nRegistry id: vr.tr.panic\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.ACT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q208450", "registryId": "vr.tr.panic", "name": "panic", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q208450/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.panic", "name": "panic", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a reported or suspected episode of panic, assess its course and effects on action, and identify appropriate support without assuming a diagnosis.", "definition": "Panic is a sudden, intense fear response in a person or group that outruns appraisal of the actual threat and produces poorly controlled flight, freeze, or crowding rather than organised coping.", "scope_statement": "This model owns panic as a bounded episode of acute alarm experienced by a person, including perceived threat, changes in bodily experience and attention, urgency to act, functional effects, and response to support; its interpretation within ACT.ACT remains provisional because the registry supplies no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Reported panic and observations that support or challenge that interpretation", "Perceived threat, uncertainty, and immediate situational danger", "Changes in bodily experience, attention, communication, and action", "Episode onset, escalation, fluctuation, and recovery", "Available support, expressed preferences, and immediate decision constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Panic disorder and other longitudinal diagnostic models", "Medical conditions that may explain overlapping experiences", "General fear, anxiety, stress, and distress without an identified panic episode", "Crowd dynamics and collective emergency behaviour", "Software or operating-system panic", "Long-term treatment plans and medication management" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Distinguish panic from ordinary fear by recording whether the person reports overwhelming alarm, urgent escape pressure, or disruption of their ability to choose and act; a threat cue alone does not establish panic.", "Distinguish an episode from sustained anxiety by checking for a discernible surge or change from the person's preceding state, while allowing uncertain boundaries.", "Distinguish panic from visible agitation by seeking the person's account: restless behaviour alone is insufficient, and apparent stillness does not settle the interpretation.", "Distinguish panic from deliberate emergency action by examining experienced alarm and choice restriction rather than treating rapid evacuation as evidence.", "Distinguish an episode from a disorder by keeping recurrence and diagnostic attribution separate from the present event." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Interpretation status", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "self-described panic | suspected panic | disputed interpretation | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an observer's label from becoming an established fact." }, { "name": "Episode phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "onset | escalating | sustained | easing | re-escalating | ended | unclear", "why_it_matters": "Makes changes in urgency and ability to engage visible." }, { "name": "Experienced intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Person-selected verbal or numerical scale, with anchors and observation time recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison within an episode without assuming a universal threshold." }, { "name": "Episode timing", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Reported or observed onset time and elapsed seconds or minutes, including uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates a current episode from a retrospective account and tracks its course." }, { "name": "Perceived threat", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person's connection between alarm and an external event, bodily sensation, thought, memory, or unknown cue", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what the person experiences as threatening without endorsing that interpretation." }, { "name": "Bodily experience", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Person-described sensations and separately attributed observations; absent, unknown, and unassessed remain distinct", "why_it_matters": "Preserves evidence without treating any sensation as proof of panic." }, { "name": "Action capacity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Ability to communicate, consider options, move safely, and carry out a chosen step, assessed separately", "why_it_matters": "Shows what decisions or actions are currently feasible." }, { "name": "Action pressure", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Reported urge to escape, seek help, remain still, seek reassurance, take another action, or no identified urge", "why_it_matters": "Separates felt urgency from intended and completed behaviour." }, { "name": "Support response", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Connection between a specific support attempt and subsequent reported or observed change, with attribution uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Helps adapt support without assuming that temporal sequence proves benefit." } ], "affordances": [ "Create a provisional episode account that separates self-report, observation, and inference.", "Track escalation and recovery using the person's own descriptions and feasible check-ins.", "Separate perceived threat from independently established situational danger.", "Adapt interaction to current communication capacity and expressed preferences.", "Identify whether a proposed immediate action is feasible, wanted, and compatible with safety.", "Prepare a concise handoff that preserves uncertainty, outstanding concerns, and support already attempted." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "dsm5tr", "title": "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Clinical definition of panic attack and panic disorder, peak-within-minutes criterion, and differential from other anxiety presentations (American Psychiatric Association, 2022)." }, { "id": "icd11-6b01", "title": "ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics: 6B01 Panic disorder", "url": "https://icd.who.int/en", "what_it_supports": "WHO diagnostic category for recurrent unexpected panic attacks with persistent concern or maladaptive behaviour (World Health Organization).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "helbing-2000", "title": "Simulating dynamical features of escape panic", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1038/35035023", "what_it_supports": "Physical crowd-panic model: clogging at bottlenecks, density-driven jams, and faster-is-slower (Helbing, Farkas & Vicsek, Nature 407, 2000).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "cohen-1972", "title": "Folk Devils and Moral Panics", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Sociological sense of moral panic as disproportionate public reaction, distinct from individual fear (Stanley Cohen, MacGibbon and Kee, 1972)." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "panic-recognition", "name": "Panic recognition", "description": "Establishes why this event is being interpreted as panic and how secure that interpretation is.", "rationale": "Panic cannot be established from a label, bodily sensation, or visible behaviour alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "experienced-alarm", "name": "Experienced alarm", "description": "Records the person's account of acute alarm and its departure from their preceding experience.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-described-panic", "name": "Person-described panic", "description": "Preserves the person's words about alarm, overwhelm, and urgency without substituting a diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the person mean by panic in this episode, and what feels different from ordinary fear or worry?", "kind": "definition", "id": "person-described-panic-q01" }, { "text": "Was this account provided during the episode or recalled later, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "person-described-panic-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-boundaries", "name": "Interpretation boundaries", "description": "Tests the panic interpretation against missing evidence and plausible neighbouring explanations.", "findings": [ { "id": "supporting-and-conflicting-evidence", "name": "Supporting and conflicting evidence", "description": "Separates evidence for panic from signs that are ambiguous or require another explanation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations support the panic interpretation, and which are only an observer's inference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supporting-and-conflicting-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What remains unexplained if this event is treated as panic?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supporting-and-conflicting-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "threat-and-escape", "name": "Threat and 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"Distinguishes experienced entrapment from established hazards and available safe actions.", "findings": [ { "id": "escape-pressure-and-options", "name": "Escape pressure and options", "description": "Records the urge to leave or obtain safety alongside the practical constraints on doing so.", "questions": [ { "text": "What danger or restriction is independently established, and what is currently a feared possibility?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "escape-pressure-and-options-q01" }, { "text": "Which immediate options are available, and can the person choose and carry out one safely?", "kind": "action", "id": "escape-pressure-and-options-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "panic-expression-and-agency", "name": "Panic expression and agency", "description": "Records how the episode affects bodily experience, attention, communication, and chosen action.", "rationale": "The same intensity label can conceal different support needs and different capacities to act.", "layers": [ { "id": "bodily-and-attentional-experience", "name": "Bodily and attentional experience", "description": "Captures sensations and changes in attention without treating them as diagnostic criteria.", "findings": [ { "id": "sensations-and-attention", "name": "Sensations and attention", "description": "Records what the person notices in their body and whether attention is fixed on threat or difficult to redirect.", "questions": [ { "text": "What bodily sensations or changes in attention are reported, and how intense are they in the person's terms?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sensations-and-attention-q01" }, { "text": "Which experiences are familiar to the person, and which are new or unresolved enough to require separate assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sensations-and-attention-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "choice-and-communication", "name": "Choice and communication", "description": "Assesses usable capacity without equating panic with total loss of control.", "findings": [ { "id": "available-deliberate-action", "name": "Available deliberate action", "description": "Separates urges, intentions, and completed actions while identifying an accessible way to communicate.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the person feel compelled to do, what do they want to do, and what have they actually done?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "available-deliberate-action-q01" }, { "text": "What communication format and size of next step can they currently manage?", "kind": "action", "id": "available-deliberate-action-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-course", "name": "Episode course", "description": "Tracks the boundaries and changing state of the panic episode.", "rationale": "Recognition and support depend on whether alarm is rising, persisting, easing, or returning.", "layers": [ { "id": "onset-and-escalation", "name": "Onset and escalation", "description": "Establishes a timeline without imposing a fixed duration or required speed of onset.", "findings": [ { "id": "episode-transition", "name": "Episode transition", "description": "Records the earliest identifiable change and the sequence of subsequent escalation.", "questions": [ { "text": "When did the person first notice a change, and how certain is that timing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "episode-transition-q01" }, { "text": "What changed before or during escalation, and which proposed connections remain unverified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "episode-transition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "easing-and-return", "name": "Easing and return", "description": "Tracks partial recovery and renewed alarm using reported experience as well as observable function.", "findings": [ { "id": "recovery-evidence", "name": "Recovery evidence", "description": "Distinguishes reduced outward expression from reduced distress and restored ability to act.", "questions": [ { "text": "What has changed in reported alarm and practical ability since the previous check?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recovery-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports treating the episode as ended, continuing, or re-escalating?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recovery-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-during-panic", "name": "Support during panic", "description": "Records acceptable support, its observed effects, and unresolved needs during the episode.", "rationale": "Support must fit the person's current capacity and preferences, and a panic interpretation must not close off other needed help.", "layers": [ { "id": "support-fit", "name": "Support fit", "description": "Identifies forms of interaction or assistance the person can use and wants to receive.", "findings": [ { "id": "accepted-support", "name": "Accepted support", "description": "Records preferences about company, space, communication, and involvement of a trusted person.", "questions": [ { "text": "What assistance does the person request, accept, or decline, and how was that preference expressed?", "kind": "action", "id": "accepted-support-q01" }, { "text": "What is known from this person's experience about support that helps or increases their distress?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-support-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-and-handoff", "name": "Response and handoff", "description": "Evaluates support attempts and preserves issues that require human or separate assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "support-effect-and-unresolved-needs", "name": "Support effect and unresolved needs", "description": "Links each attempted intervention to subsequent changes without assuming causation or that panic explains every concern.", "questions": [ { "text": "After a support attempt, what changed in the person's reported distress, communication, or ability to act?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "support-effect-and-unresolved-needs-q01" }, { "text": "What unresolved danger, unexplained experience, or unmet support need requires a handoff, and what information should accompany it?", "kind": "action", 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mass flight at an egress, fire, or crush)", "Combat or battlefield panic (breakdown of unit cohesion under fire)", "Financial or bank panic (contagious run on deposits or liquidity)", "Moral panic (disproportionate public alarm about a folk devil, Cohen's sense)", "Animal herd panic (contagious flight in livestock or wildlife)", "Nocturnal or sleep-related panic (attacks from sleep without an external cue)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of panic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q505148", "note": "panic attack" }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q741713", "note": "panic disorder" }, { "scheme": "ICD-11", 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and occupant-load provisions - International Code Council", "IMO guidelines on evacuation analysis for passenger ships (MSC circulars under SOLAS) - International Maritime Organization", "Deposit-insurance statutes that exist specifically to stop bank panics (e.g. Federal Deposit Insurance Act in the United States) - national banking authorities" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of panic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Emergency-department presentation of sudden chest pain, palpitations, and fear of dying that is later coded as a panic attack rather than acute coronary syndrome", "Stadium, station, and nightclub egress design that assumes clogging if density rises at a bottleneck", "Bank-run and liquidity-stress playbooks in central banking and deposit insurance", "Military and police training against contagious flight and loss of unit control", "Event and festival crowd management (barriers, one-way flows, stewarding) aimed at preventing crush, not at treating a psychiatric episode" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of panic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Duration of a typical clinical panic attack", "typical_range": "peaks within minutes; commonly 5-20, rarely lasting hours", "unit": "min" }, { "quantity": "Heart rate during an attack", "typical_range": "100-180", "unit": "beats/min" }, { "quantity": "Crowd density at which walking flow breaks and crush risk rises", "typical_range": "flow degrades near 4; life-threatening compression often cited above about 5-6", "unit": "persons/m²" }, { "quantity": "Twelve-month prevalence of panic disorder in community surveys (high-income samples)", "typical_range": "about 1-3", "unit": "%" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of panic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Crowd crush and traumatic asphyxia at bottlenecks even when the original threat is small or false", "Flight into a worse hazard (closed door, water, roadway) because appraisal is bypassed", "Cardiac work-up delay or, conversely, missed myocardial ischaemia when a panic attack is assumed", "Avoidance and agoraphobia after repeated attacks, shrinking work and travel", "Contagion of flight or of a bank run once others' behaviour is treated as information", "Freeze or tonic immobility that blocks egress", "Use of 'panic' as a post-hoc label that hides poor design, blocked exits, or crowd compression" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of panic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Clinical coding: DSM-5-TR in US practice versus ICD-11 6B01 (and older ICD-10 F41.0) elsewhere", "Latino and Caribbean 'ataque de nervios' overlaps panic attacks but is not identical in cueing, dissociation, or cultural meaning", "Japanese パニック障害 follows the clinical loanword; 恐慌 is the usual term for financial panic", "Crowd-science literature (especially UK social-identity work) treats the Western 'people panic and trample' story as often false; coordinated helping is frequently observed" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of panic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "fear", "difference": "Fear is object-linked and can stay organised; panic is the surge that outruns appraisal and control." }, { "name": "anxiety", "difference": "Anxiety is anticipatory and often prolonged; a panic attack is abrupt and peaks within minutes." }, { "name": "specific phobia", "difference": "Phobic fear is cued by a defined stimulus and produces avoidance; unexpected (uncued) attacks define panic disorder." }, { "name": "stampede / crowd crush", "difference": "Those are physical mass-motion outcomes; panic is the psychological state and is neither necessary nor sufficient for a crush." }, { "name": "moral panic", "difference": "A media and political reaction to a folk devil, not an individual's autonomic fear surge (Cohen)." }, { "name": "software or kernel panic", "difference": "An abort of a runtime or operating system; same English word, unrelated mechanism." }, { "name": "acute stress reaction / fight-or-flight", "difference": "Adaptive mobilisation to a present threat; panic is diagnosed when the surge is unexpected, disproportionate, or disorganising." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of panic this model covers, and on what 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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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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": [ "Satanic panic", "social panic", "panic attack", "Satanic panic in Finland" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 panic from another, and a panic 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 panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 panic 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 panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 panic from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 panic 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 panic between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 panic, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a panic 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 panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 panic 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 panic, 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 panic and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 panic consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a panic 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 panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 panic 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 panic 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 panic 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 panic 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 panic?", "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 panic?", "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 panic 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 panic and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 panic is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a panic, 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 panic, 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 panic 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 } } } }