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thematic resemblance alone is insufficient.", "A commandment number is meaningful only within an enumeration scheme, because traditions group and divide the material differently.", "The model distinguishes the commandments from surrounding narrative, introductory declarations and explanatory clauses without assuming all traditions draw those boundaries identically.", "A short catechetical formulation can represent the Ten Commandments while requiring a different fidelity assessment from a claimed verbatim biblical quotation." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Representation type", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Biblical passage, translation, quotation, catechetical summary, paraphrase, adaptation or unidentified representation", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether to assess exact wording, conceptual coverage or declared transformation." }, { "name": "Textual basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified relationship to Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5, both passages or a named derivative source", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison without silently substituting one textual account for another." }, { "name": "Language and edition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named language, translation, edition and passage locator; unknown when unverified", "why_it_matters": "Makes wording and lexical interpretations traceable." }, { "name": "Enumeration scheme", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named and sourced tradition or explicit custom grouping; unresolved if attribution is unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents incorrect matching by commandment number alone." }, { "name": "Commandment coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of represented units out of ten under the declared enumeration scheme", "why_it_matters": "Detects partial representations while avoiding the assumption that ten displayed lines guarantee completeness." }, { "name": "Interpretive attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community, commentator or document responsible for an interpretation", "why_it_matters": "Separates textual content from claims about its meaning." }, { "name": "Claimed applicability", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attributed addressees, circumstances and present-day applicability; disputed or unspecified where appropriate", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from treating a community-specific obligation as universally established." }, { "name": "Fidelity assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unchecked, supported for declared purpose, incomplete, misattributed or disputed", "why_it_matters": "Guides whether the agent may quote, compare, explain or flag a representation." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate representation and link it to its declared textual or teaching source.", "Align commandments across enumeration schemes using their content rather than their numbers.", "Compare the Exodus and Deuteronomy formulations while preserving their distinct wording and rationales.", "Explain an obligation or prohibition with explicit attribution to an interpretive tradition.", "Check a quotation or summary for omissions, additions and misleading attribution.", "Produce a labelled adaptation or teaching summary that preserves its source relationships and discloses substantive changes." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "exod-20", "title": "Exodus 20:1-17 (the Decalogue)", "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.20.1-17", "what_it_supports": "Primary biblical wording of the Sinai commandments and their narrative frame as divine speech.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "deut-5", "title": "Deuteronomy 5:6-21 (the Deuteronomic Decalogue)", "url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.5.6-21", "what_it_supports": "The second canonical recension, with Sabbath and coveting formulations that differ from Exodus.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "nrsv-intro", "title": "The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Standard scholarly notes on two recensions, the Ritual Decalogue in Exodus 34, and the phrase 'ten words' (ʿăśeret hadděbārîm)." }, { "id": "catechism-2052", "title": "Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part Three, Section Two (The Ten Commandments), nn. 2052-2557", "url": "https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7E.HTM", "what_it_supports": "Catholic numbering, liturgical and catechetical use, and the combination of the first two prohibitions.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "mckenzie-abd", "title": "Anchor Bible Dictionary, s.v. 'Ten Commandments'", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Critical discussion of dating, covenant-treaty form, numbering traditions, and distinction from the Ritual Decalogue." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "decalogue-identity", "name": "Decalogue identity", "description": "Establishes what makes the candidate a representation of the Ten Commandments and which material it includes.", "rationale": "A title or ten-item layout does not establish identity, and different representations include different amounts of surrounding material.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognition-and-lineage", "name": "Recognition and lineage", "description": "Connects the candidate to a recognisable Decalogue source or teaching lineage.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-identification", "name": "Basis for identification", "description": "Record the evidence supporting identification as the Ten Commandments, separating explicit attribution from inferred resemblance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What wording, attribution or source relationship identifies this candidate as the Ten Commandments?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which biblical passage or named teaching source supports that identification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "passage-boundaries", "name": "Passage boundaries", "description": "Distinguishes commandment material from framing narrative and explanatory material.", "findings": [ { "id": "included-textual-components", "name": "Included textual components", "description": "Record which declarations, directives and explanatory clauses the representation includes and how its source classifies them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does the represented Decalogue begin and end in its cited source?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "included-textual-components-q01" }, { "text": "How does the declared tradition treat the opening declaration and the explanatory clauses attached to directives?", "kind": "definition", "id": "included-textual-components-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "textual-witnesses", "name": "Textual witnesses", "description": "Preserves the relationship between a representation, its biblical account and its translation or edition.", "rationale": "Differences between accounts and translations can affect interpretation and must remain visible during comparison.", "layers": [ { "id": "biblical-account", "name": "Biblical account", "description": "Identifies the passage underlying the representation and any combination of passages.", "findings": [ { "id": "account-specific-wording", "name": "Account-specific wording", "description": "Record whether wording comes from Exodus, Deuteronomy or a composite, including differences in the Sabbath rationale and other explanatory material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this representation follow Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5 or an explicitly documented combination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "account-specific-wording-q01" }, { "text": "Which differences between the accounts must remain visible for the intended comparison or explanation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "account-specific-wording-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "translation-and-wording", "name": "Translation and wording", "description": "Makes edition-dependent wording and consequential translation choices assessable.", "findings": [ { "id": "lexical-choice-traceability", "name": "Lexical choice traceability", "description": "Record the translation source and interpretively consequential wording, including formulations rendered as 'kill' or 'murder'.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which language, translation and edition supply the quoted wording?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "lexical-choice-traceability-q01" }, { "text": "What source supports the scope assigned to a consequential translated term?", "kind": "definition", "id": "lexical-choice-traceability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "enumeration-and-alignment", "name": "Enumeration and alignment", "description": "Represents the tenfold organisation without treating any numbering scheme as universal.", "rationale": "The same number can designate different content across traditions, making content-based alignment essential.", "layers": [ { "id": "grouping-conventions", "name": "Grouping conventions", "description": "Records how a declared scheme groups and separates the textual material.", "findings": [ { "id": "ten-unit-partition", "name": "Ten-unit partition", "description": "Record the boundaries of all ten units, including treatment of the opening declaration, images and coveting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sourced enumeration scheme determines the ten units in this representation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ten-unit-partition-q01" }, { "text": "How does that scheme group or separate the opening declaration, prohibitions concerning images and coveting material?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "ten-unit-partition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cross-scheme-mapping", "name": 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"id": "coverage-and-fidelity", "name": "Coverage and fidelity", "description": "Checks represented content against the declared textual basis and enumeration scheme.", "findings": [ { "id": "representation-integrity", "name": "Representation integrity", "description": "Record omissions, additions, reordered material and paraphrases in relation to the representation's stated type.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many of the ten units are represented under the declared scheme, and which are missing or only partly represented?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "representation-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "Which wording changes or omissions affect meaning or make the representation's attribution misleading?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "representation-integrity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "permitted-transformations", "name": "Permitted transformations", "description": "Guides quotation, explanation, comparison and adaptation while preserving attribution and interpretive limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-appropriate-disclosure", "name": "Use-appropriate disclosure", "description": "Record the labels and source information required when transforming a Decalogue representation for a particular audience.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the intended use, should the output be labelled a quotation, translation, summary, interpretation or adaptation?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-appropriate-disclosure-q01" }, { "text": "Which source, enumeration scheme and substantive changes must be disclosed so the output remains assessable?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-appropriate-disclosure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be 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": [ "Exodus (Elohist/Priestly) Decalogue - Exodus 20:1-17", "Deuteronomic Decalogue - Deuteronomy 5:6-21", "Jewish (Talmudic) numbering - opening 'I am the Lord' as the first commandment", "Augustinian/Catholic and Lutheran numbering - 'no other gods' and 'no images' combined; coveting split", "Reformed/Orthodox numbering - 'no other gods' and 'no images' kept separate; coveting kept as one", "Ritual Decalogue (Exodus 34:11-26) - a different ten-item cultic list sometimes also called 'ten words'", "Samaritan Decalogue - Pentateuchal text plus a commandment to build an altar on Mount Gerizim", "Public-display / civic Decalogue - monument, courtroom, 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member churches (Lutheran numbering and household instruction).", "Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms, questions on the Decalogue - Presbyterian/Reformed churches (Reformed numbering).", "Van Orden v. Perry, 545 U.S. 677 (2005) and McCreary County v. ACLU, 545 U.S. 844 (2005) - Supreme Court of the United States (limits on government display of the Commandments).", "Israeli Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty and rabbinic halakhah - State of Israel and Orthodox rabbinic authorities (Jewish reception as mitzvot, not as a free-standing civil code)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Ten Commandments this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Liturgical reading of Exodus 20 or Deuteronomy 5 on Shavuot and in synagogue Torah cycles; Christian lectionaries on Lent and ordinary-time Sundays.", "Catechesis: memorization in Jewish ḥeder, Catholic CCD/RCIA, Lutheran confirmation, and Reformed Sunday school.", "Synagogue architecture (aron kodesh tablets) and church art (Moses with two tablets; Protestant numbered lists on walls).", "U.S. civic monuments on capitol grounds, courthouses, and public schools, litigated as Establishment Clause cases.", "Film, advertising, and political speech as a shorthand for 'Judeo-Christian morality' (e.g. DeMille's 1956 film).", "Jewish legal reasoning treats the ten as a subset of 613 mitzvot, not a complete code; Christian moral theology uses them as a framework for examining conscience." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Ten Commandments this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Count of commandments in the received lists", "typical_range": "10 (always presented as ten; internal division of clauses varies)", "unit": "items" }, { "quantity": "Canonical verse span", "typical_range": "17 verses (Exod 20:1-17) or 16 verses (Deut 5:6-21)", "unit": "verses" }, { "quantity": "Traditional tablet count", "typical_range": "2 stone tablets (often 5+5 or 4+6 split in art)", "unit": "tablets" }, { "quantity": "Jewish enumeration among the 613 mitzvot", "typical_range": "the ten map onto a small subset of the 613; 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Ten Commandments, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a representation of the Ten Commandments, assess its textual and interpretive fidelity, and determine which comparisons, explanations or adaptations are justified.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 140 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Ten Commandments, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "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." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says" ], "howItIsRecognised": [], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 140 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Ten Commandments from another, and a Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What Ten Commandments studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does Ten Commandments take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does Ten Commandments establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where Ten Commandments is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark Ten Commandments as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place Ten Commandments, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments 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 Ten Commandments is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments, 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 Ten Commandments 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 } } } }