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                "repression-sensitization",
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                "purpose": "Let an agent explain defence mechanisms in the wide sense the registry uses, relay psychoanalytic, social and cognitive perspectives from academic sources with attribution, describe each alias as a distinct phenomenon, and distinguish this entry from the WordNet defence mechanism entry, from biological defence and from personal diagnosis.",
                "definition": "In the registry s broad sense, a psychological or social pattern by which people protect themselves from anxiety, threat or blame, spanning individual psychoanalytic mechanisms such as projective identification, group processes such as scapegoating and its ancient form the pharmakos ritual, coping patterns such as information avoidance, ascetic self-denial, and the vicarious traumatisation experienced by helpers; the registry lists these together, while psychology treats them as distinct phenomena.",
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                    "relay perspectives",
                    "describe each phenomenon",
                    "distinguish related entries"
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                    "Attributed theories"
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                    "Patterns protecting against anxiety, threat or blame",
                    "Projective identification, scapegoating, pharmakos, information avoidance, asceticism, vicarious traumatisation",
                    "The WordNet entry covers classic Freudian defences; biological defences are immune or physical"
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                        "quantity": "projective identification described",
                        "typical_range": "1946",
                        "unit": "year",
                        "note": "Melanie Klein"
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                        "quantity": "pharmakos",
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                    "helper responses such as vicarious traumatisation"
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                    "Agents diagnosing individuals or groups",
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                                                "text": "What are projective identification, scapegoating, the pharmakos, information avoidance, asceticism and vicarious traumatisation?",
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                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific phenomenon?",
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                                                "text": "How do Klein and later analysts describe projective identification, with positions attributed?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
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                                                "text": "What does research say about information avoidance and asceticism as coping, with findings attributed?",
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                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
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                                                "text": "How do social psychology and Girard s theory explain scapegoating and the pharmakos, with positions attributed?",
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                                                "text": "What is vicarious traumatisation in helpers, and how is it addressed, in general terms?",
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                                                "text": "Is the user seeking personal help, which needs a qualified professional?",
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                                                "text": "How should this broad entry and the WordNet entry be kept apart?",
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                                                "text": "Which entry fits defense mechanism (psychiatry)?",
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                                        "id": "history-finding",
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                                        "questions": [
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                                                "kind": "provenance"
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the history of psychoanalysis?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
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                "Should scapegoating, projective identification and vicarious traumatisation be separate primary entries?",
                "How should this entry relate to the WordNet defence mechanism entry?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming distinct phenomena and a ritual; should they be split off?"
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                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
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            "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 defence mechanism, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain defence mechanisms in the wide sense the registry uses, relay psychoanalytic, social and cognitive perspectives from academic sources with attribution, describe each alias as a distinct phenomenon, and distinguish this entry from the WordNet defence mechanism entry, from biological defence and from personal diagnosis.",
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                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
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                "observed and measured"
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                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: scapegoating, vicarious traumatization, pharmakos, information avoidance, asceticism, projective identification, sublimation, thought suppression, affect insulation, psychological projection, perceptual defense, repression-sensitization.",
                "18 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 47 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
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                "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 defence mechanism, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "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."
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                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
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            "howItIsRecognised": [
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            ],
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                        "vicarious traumatization",
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                        "affect insulation",
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            "standing": "Described in 47 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 18 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
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                        "description": "How an agent tells one defence mechanism from another, and a defence mechanism from things that resemble it.",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a defence mechanism, 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 defence mechanism is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a defence mechanism, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a defence mechanism, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a defence mechanism is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a defence mechanism, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a defence mechanism, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a defence mechanism is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a defence mechanism, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
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                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a defence mechanism, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a defence mechanism is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a defence mechanism, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a defence mechanism, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a defence mechanism is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a defence mechanism, how often and by whom.",
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                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
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                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a defence mechanism, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a defence mechanism is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                        "description": "How a defence mechanism proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.",
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                                "description": "The steps of a defence mechanism, their order and what may run in parallel.",
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                                    {
                                        "id": "steps-and-preconditions",
                                        "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion",
                                        "description": "What has to be true before each step of a defence mechanism and what marks it done.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a defence mechanism, 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 defence mechanism, 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 defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism consumes and what it produces.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "inputs-and-outputs",
                                        "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects",
                                        "description": "The resources a defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism, 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 defence mechanism, 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 defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism?",
                                                "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 defence mechanism?",
                                                "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 defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a defence mechanism, 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 defence mechanism, 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 defence mechanism 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 defence mechanism is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a defence mechanism, 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 defence mechanism, 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 defence mechanism 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
            }
        }
    }
}