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model owns the informational identity of a sutra under vr.tr.sutra in INF / INF.MED: its designation, textual boundaries, transmission, attributed teachings, reception and conditions of use; coverage across traditions remains provisional because the registry records no definition.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that a text or textual unit is designated a sutra within an identified tradition", "Work identity, alternative titles, internal divisions and collection membership", "Relations among recensions, witnesses, editions and translations", "Attributed speakers, compilers and transmission histories, with evidence and uncertainty", "Teachings, interpretive dependencies and community-specific standing", "Suitability of particular textual forms for quotation, study, translation or recitation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Physical conservation and ownership of manuscripts or printed volumes", "Complete models of religious traditions, schools or institutions", "Biographies of attributed speakers, authors, translators or commentators", "Commentaries and treatises as independently modelled works", "Individual ritual performances, teaching sessions or recitation events", "Copyright administration and digital repository infrastructure" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require an identifiable tradition, catalogue or scholarly source supporting the sutra designation; a modern title containing 'sutra' alone leaves classification unresolved.", "Determine whether 'sutra' identifies an individual formulation, a complete discourse or a collected work before assigning its boundaries.", "Distinguish the root text from commentary through explicit textual boundaries, attribution and editorial evidence, including when both appear together.", "Identify the work independently of its manuscript, edition or translation, while preserving which textual form supports each quotation.", "Test genre within the relevant tradition rather than making brevity, sacred status or attribution to a particular teacher universal requirements." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Sutra designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Tradition-supported; catalogue-supported; scholarly classification; title-only; disputed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether recognition as a sutra is supported and whose classification is being applied." }, { "name": "Textual granularity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Individual formulation; discourse; composite work; collection; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from confusing a numbered unit with the work containing it." }, { "name": "Tradition and school affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named communities or schools, with the source and scope of each affiliation", "why_it_matters": "Conditions genre interpretation, authority claims and appropriate use." }, { "name": "Textual extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Count of named structural units in a specified recension or edition", "why_it_matters": "Supports completeness checks without assuming that different textual forms share numbering or length." }, { "name": "Transmission relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Witness-of; recension-of; translation-of; excerpt-of; parallel-to; relationship-disputed", "why_it_matters": "Makes comparison possible without collapsing related but distinct texts." }, { "name": "Attribution standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Traditional attribution recorded; independently evidenced; contested; anonymous; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates inherited attribution from conclusions about historical composition." }, { "name": "Community-specific authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community linked to its reported acceptance, classification or rejection, with date and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents local canonical or doctrinal standing from being presented as universal." }, { "name": "Available text completeness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Complete relative to identified reference; fragmentary; abridged; reconstructed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent can represent the available text as the whole sutra." }, { "name": "Interpretive dependence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Passage linked to required terminology, adjacent units, commentary or school-specific interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Flags where a stand-alone paraphrase would conceal necessary interpretive choices." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a title or passage to a sutra and an identified textual form.", "Locate and quote a passage with edition-specific coordinates and translation attribution.", "Compare recensions or translations while marking additions, omissions and uncertain alignments.", "Produce a contextual summary that separates textual wording, attributed teaching and commentary.", "Assess whether an available text supports a requested study, teaching or recitation use.", "Link the sutra to its collection, commentaries and parallel texts without merging their identities." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-britannica", "title": "Sutra", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/sutra", "what_it_supports": "Core definition as aphoristic thread of teaching; Vedic Kalpa, philosophical, Buddhist, and Jain kinds.", "url_status": "blocked" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sutra-identity", "name": "Sutra identity", "description": "Establish what is being called a sutra and at what textual scale.", "rationale": "The registry label alone does not establish genre, tradition or the boundaries of an individual thing.", "layers": [ { "id": "designation-and-tradition", "name": "Designation and tradition", "description": "Ground the sutra classification in identifiable usage.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-sutra-designation", "name": "Supported sutra designation", "description": "Record who designates the text a sutra, their terminology and any competing 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words and catalogue references distinguish it from similarly named texts?", "kind": "definition", "id": "textual-identity-and-extent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "text-and-transmission", "name": "Text and transmission", "description": "Establish which textual forms are available and how they relate.", "rationale": "An agent needs an identified textual basis before quoting, comparing or claiming completeness.", "layers": [ { "id": "recensions-and-witnesses", "name": "Recensions and witnesses", "description": "Represent textual variation and the evidence supporting an available reading.", "findings": [ { "id": "available-textual-basis", "name": "Available textual basis", "description": "Identify the recension, witnesses or editorial reconstruction underlying the text being used, including missing material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which witnesses or editorial sources support this textual form?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "available-textual-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Against which reference is completeness assessed, and which units are missing, added or reconstructed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "available-textual-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "translations-and-alignment", "name": "Translations and alignment", "description": "Connect translations to their textual bases and passage coordinates.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-translation", "name": "Traceable translation", "description": "Record translator, source language, textual basis and revision identity; an edition may explicitly distinguish its translation and editorial contributors, as in [84000's Heart Sutra presentation](https://reader.84000.co/entity/passage/4d1896b2-dcf3-4b01-8cc6-8bd5e30c9d67).", "questions": [ { "text": "Who produced this translation, from which textual form, and in which revision?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-translation-q01" }, { "text": "Which passage correspondences are established, and where do numbering or textual extent diverge?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-translation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "teaching-and-interpretation", "name": "Teaching and interpretation", "description": "Represent what the sutra communicates while preserving textual and interpretive distinctions.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a passage's voice and wording from later explanations before summarising its teaching.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-speaking-roles", "name": "Form and speaking roles", "description": "Record how formulations, dialogue or narrative distribute claims within the text.", "findings": [ { "id": "passage-function-and-voice", "name": "Passage function and voice", "description": "Identify whether a passage functions as a rule, teaching, question, objection, narrative frame or other locally supported form, and who is represented as speaking.", "questions": [ { "text": "What function does this passage serve within the sutra's argument or narrative?", "kind": "definition", "id": "passage-function-and-voice-q01" }, { "text": "Whose statement is this, and does the surrounding text endorse, qualify or reject it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "passage-function-and-voice-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-text-and-exegesis", "name": "Root text and exegesis", "description": "Separate the sutra's wording from explanatory additions and interpretive commitments.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretation-dependencies", "name": "Interpretation dependencies", "description": "Record the terms, surrounding units and commentarial choices needed to justify a reading without silently incorporating commentary into the sutra.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which words belong to the root text, and which are commentary, supplied translation or editorial explanation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "interpretation-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "Which commentary or school supports this interpretation, and what alternative reading remains relevant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "interpretation-dependencies-q02" }, { "text": "What context must accompany a quotation or paraphrase to preserve its meaning?", "kind": "action", "id": "interpretation-dependencies-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-use", "name": "Authority and use", "description": "Connect attributed origins and community reception to justified uses of a particular sutra text.", "rationale": "Historical attribution, religious acceptance and suitability for a requested activity require separate judgments.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution-and-reception", "name": "Attribution and reception", "description": "Record whose account of origin or authority is being reported.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-authority-claims", "name": "Situated authority claims", "description": "Separate traditional speaker or compiler attribution, evidence about composition, and acceptance within named communities or collections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is traditionally credited with speaking, composing or compiling the sutra, and what evidence independently supports each 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practice apply to this intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-sutra-use-q02" }, { "text": "Which unresolved reading or provenance issue requires qualification before proceeding?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-sutra-use-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 existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Vedic/ritual sutra (Kalpa, including Śrauta, Gṛhya, Dharma, and Śulba)", "Grammatical and technical śāstra sutra (Pāṇini and allied sciences)", "Hindu philosophical sutra (Brahma, Yoga, Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika, Mīmāṃsā, Sāṃkhya)", "Buddhist sutta/sūtra (early nikāya/āgama discourses and later Mahāyāna sūtras)", "Jain sutra (canonical āgama texts)", "Tantric and later sectarian sutra collections" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of sutra 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": "Q43214", "note": "item for sūtra as literary/religious genre" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of 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"difference": "a distinct class of esoteric scripture, not defined by aphoristic brevity" }, { "name": "sutta vs sūtra in Buddhism", "difference": "Pali sutta typically names a discourse; Sanskrit sūtra in Mahāyāna often names a longer scripture" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of sutra this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.sutra intentionally cover Buddhist, Hindu and Jain usages, Pali sutta, and modern works adopting the designation, or is a narrower registry meaning intended?", "Should an individually numbered sutra and the sutra work containing it be instances of this same registered kind, or should the unit be represented only within the work's structure?", "What evidence should distinguish recensions of one sutra from separate but parallel works when traditions or catalogues disagree?", "Which 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "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": [ "Mahayana sutra", "ornamental sutra", "book of bodhisattva precepts", "Tathāgatagarbha Sutras", "prajñāpāramitā sutra", "Zen scripture", "shrautasutra", "Baudhayana sutras", "Dharmasutra", "Prakirnaka Sutra", "Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra", "Shulba Sutras" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 12 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 sutra from another, and a sutra 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 sutra, 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 sutra, 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 sutra 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 sutra, 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 sutra, 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 sutra 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 sutra 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 sutra, 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 sutra, 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 sutra 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 sutra from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sutra, 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 sutra, 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 sutra 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 sutra 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 sutra between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sutra, 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 sutra, 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 sutra 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 sutra, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a sutra 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 sutra, 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 sutra, 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 sutra is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a sutra says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a sutra contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a sutra, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a sutra, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a sutra is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a sutra and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a sutra, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a sutra, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a sutra is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of sutra a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For sutra, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of sutra exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made sutra and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to sutra, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in sutra, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a sutra 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 sutra and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sutra, 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 sutra, 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 sutra 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 sutra is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sutra, 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 sutra, 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 sutra 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 } } } }