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"scope_statement": "This model owns pansexuality as a concept describing the potential for attraction to people of any gender or regardless of gender, including variation in definitions, self-identification, research operationalisation, and responsible representation.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions of pansexuality and the significance each assigns to gender in attraction", "Voluntary identification with the term pansexual", "Relationships and overlaps with bisexuality and other multisexual identities", "Distinctions among sexual attraction, romantic attraction, behaviour, and identity", "Operationalisation of pansexuality in surveys and other records", "Context, provenance, and permissions attached to disclosed identity information" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Gender identity and gender expression as independently modelled concepts", "Panromanticism as a distinct romantic orientation", "Bisexuality, omnisexuality, and other neighbouring orientations in their full scope", "Polyamory, monogamy, and other relationship arrangements", "Individual sexual practices and sexual health assessment", "General histories of LGBTQ+ organisations and movements" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An explicit pansexual self-description supports recording that identity; partner history or appearance alone does not establish it.", "A definition must address attraction across genders or regardless of gender; simply having multiple partners does not distinguish pansexuality.", "Pansexuality and bisexuality can overlap in usage, so attraction to more than one gender does not provide a reliable exclusive classification between them.", "A description concerning romantic attraction alone should be distinguished from a statement of pansexual orientation.", "Potential attraction to people of any gender does not mean attraction to every person, equal attraction across genders, or willingness to enter any particular relationship." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Definition formulation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attraction regardless of gender; attraction to people of any gender; another attributed formulation; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Preserves differences in usage without declaring one formulation universally authoritative." }, { "name": "Identity assertion", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Self-described as pansexual; explicitly not self-described as pansexual; questioning; historical self-description; not disclosed", "why_it_matters": "Separates a person's chosen identity from an observer's interpretation." }, { "name": "Attraction dimension", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sexual; romantic; both explicitly stated; another stated dimension; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents sexual and romantic orientation from being silently treated as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Reported role of gender", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Descriptive account of whether and how gender matters to attraction; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Allows individual accounts to differ without imposing gender blindness or equal attraction." }, { "name": "Relationship to other identity terms", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Concurrent identification; umbrella affiliation; explicit distinction; former identification; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Represents overlap with bisexual, queer, or other terms without forcing exclusive categories." }, { "name": "Disclosure context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Statement linked to its speaker, date, audience, purpose, and permitted use", "why_it_matters": "An identity disclosed in one setting should not automatically become available in every other setting." }, { "name": "Research inclusion basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Identity response; attraction response; behaviour response; combined criterion; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Makes clear whether a study measures pansexual identification or a different construct." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare attributed definitions while retaining their differences and contexts.", "Record a voluntary pansexual self-description using the person's stated terminology.", "Represent overlapping identity labels without treating them as contradictions.", "Evaluate whether a survey actually measures pansexual identity, attraction, or behaviour.", "Explain why pansexuality does not establish partner preferences, relationship arrangements, or consent.", "Restrict, correct, or remove identity information according to the disclosure context and the person's instructions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "definitions-and-conceptual-boundaries", "name": "Definitions and conceptual boundaries", "description": "Represent the meanings assigned to pansexuality and their boundaries with neighbouring orientation concepts.", "rationale": "Recognition depends on attributed meanings rather than a single imposed definition.", "layers": [ { "id": "gender-and-attraction", "name": "Gender and 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relationships among labels as matters requiring attribution, allowing overlap and avoiding the assumption that bisexuality excludes particular genders.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this speaker or source treat pansexuality as overlapping with, falling under, or differing from bisexuality or omnisexuality?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nonexclusive-label-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "Does the account describe sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or both?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nonexclusive-label-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "self-identification-and-lived-meaning", "name": "Self-identification and lived meaning", "description": "Represent how a person uses pansexuality to describe themselves without assigning the label from external observations.", "rationale": "A concept definition alone cannot establish a particular person's identity or the meaning they give it.", "layers": [ { "id": "identity-statements", "name": "Identity statements", "description": "Capture 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"description": "Do not infer pansexual identity from partners or infer universal attraction, nonmonogamy, or sexual availability from the identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which statements concern identity, attraction, behaviour, or relationship arrangements, and have any been conflated?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "limits-of-behavioural-inference-q01" }, { "text": "What can the agent accurately record from the person's statement without inferring additional preferences or conduct?", "kind": "action", "id": "limits-of-behavioural-inference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "research-and-operationalisation", "name": "Research and operationalisation", "description": "Examine how research identifies pansexual respondents and what its measurements support.", "rationale": "Results about identity, attraction, and behaviour cannot be compared reliably when their inclusion criteria differ.", "layers": [ { "id": "survey-recognition", "name": "Survey recognition", "description": "Inspect question 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}, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a pansexuality 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality, 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 pansexuality, by which method, 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"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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality between them.", "questions": [ { 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"Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a pansexuality 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 pansexuality, 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 pansexuality, 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality, 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 pansexuality and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a pansexuality, 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 pansexuality, 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a pansexuality 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 pansexuality, 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 pansexuality, 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality?", "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 pansexuality?", "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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a pansexuality, 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 pansexuality, 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 pansexuality 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 pansexuality is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a pansexuality, 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 pansexuality, 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 pansexuality 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 } } } }