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uncertainty, or a response to a perceived gap in knowledge.", "scope_statement": "This model owns curiosity as a proposed motivational state or disposition oriented toward discovering, understanding, or experiencing something not yet known, including competing definitions, observable expressions, and limits on interpreting or supporting it.", "in_scope": [ "Competing accounts of curiosity and the criteria each uses to identify an instance", "Episodes of curiosity, their objects, triggers, development, and resolution", "Dispositional and context-dependent differences in curiosity", "Relationships between felt curiosity, exploratory behaviour, and information seeking", "Evidence used to assess curiosity and decisions about supporting its expression" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Knowledge and belief contents independently of curiosity about them", "Learning outcomes and instructional design as complete systems", "Attention, interest, surprise, and boredom except where needed to distinguish curiosity", "Clinical diagnosis or treatment of anxiety and compulsive behaviour", "Research methodology and scientific inquiry as institutional practices", "Curiosities understood as unusual objects or collectibles" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Record whether something unknown invites discovery or understanding; detecting an unexpected event alone does not establish curiosity.", "Distinguish wanting to know from sustained liking or engagement: interest can concern familiar material, while curiosity requires an account of what remains to be discovered.", "Record the motive for a search: compliance, immediate practical necessity, reassurance, and curiosity can produce similar actions and may coexist.", "Distinguish seeking varied stimulation from seeking an answer to a particular question, while leaving their inclusion under curiosity dependent on the chosen definition.", "Treat verbal questions, browsing, and exploration as possible indicators rather than sufficient evidence; curiosity may also be reported without visible action." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Definitional account", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Information-gap account; novelty or exploration account; epistemic motivation account; plural account; other specified account", "why_it_matters": "Different accounts admit different instances and require different evidence." }, { "name": "Curiosity object", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Relation to a question, phenomenon, person, experience, or unresolved possibility", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what the agent seeks to discover and whose interests or boundaries may be involved." }, { "name": "Question specificity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Specific answer sought; loosely bounded topic; open exploration; unclear", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether support should offer an answer, a path of inquiry, or opportunities to explore." }, { "name": "Reported intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Score on a named instrument or explicitly anchored rating, with time and context; no universal unit assumed", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison only when the rating method and conditions justify it." }, { "name": "Affective character", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Enjoyable anticipation; uncomfortable not-knowing; mixed; other reported experience; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish support for exploration from pressure to remove uncertainty." }, { "name": "Episode status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Expressed; being pursued; deferred; reportedly satisfied; abandoned; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates losing an opportunity to inquire from no longer wanting to know." }, { "name": "Temporal scope of assessment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Momentary episode; recurring tendency in a domain; proposed cross-context disposition", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a single observation from becoming an unsupported judgement about a person." }, { "name": "Exploration investment", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Observed time, number of chosen inquiries, or resources spent, with available alternatives and constraints recorded", "why_it_matters": "Describes pursuit without equating effort directly with curiosity." }, { "name": "Evidence basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-report; observed choice; behavioural trace; observer interpretation; combined evidence", "why_it_matters": "Makes the uncertainty of an attribution explicit." } ], "affordances": [ "Elicit what someone wants to discover and represent the unresolved question without requiring a fully articulated information gap.", "Compare candidate explanations for an exploratory action before attributing curiosity.", "Offer answers, hints, examples, or exploratory paths suited to the stated object and preferred depth.", "Track whether inquiry satisfies, redirects, or leaves curiosity unresolved.", "Assess patterns across episodes while preserving context and uncertainty.", "Identify consent, privacy, resource, and stopping constraints before enabling further inquiry." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "definitions-and-boundaries", "name": "Definitions and boundaries", "description": "Represent competing meanings of curiosity and the evidence each would accept.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, so the model must expose its conceptual commitments rather than treat one account as settled.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-accounts", "name": "Competing accounts", "description": "Compare accounts centred on knowing, information gaps, novelty, and exploration.", "findings": [ { "id": "account-and-instance-criteria", "name": "Account and instance criteria", "description": "Record each account's proponents, source, necessary conditions, and disputed examples; these are research targets rather than established endorsements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this account require a recognised gap in knowledge, or can undirected exploration count as curiosity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "account-and-instance-criteria-q01" }, { "text": "Which authors or research traditions defend this account, and which primary texts establish their position?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "account-and-instance-criteria-q02" }, { "text": "What example would qualify under this account but fail under a competing account?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "account-and-instance-criteria-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-motives", "name": "Neighbouring motives", "description": "Separate curiosity from related experiences and alternative reasons for seeking information.", "findings": [ { "id": "mixed-motive-attribution", "name": "Mixed motive attribution", "description": "Represent curiosity alongside practical need, interest, reassurance seeking, obligation, or stimulation seeking without forcing an exclusive label.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports wanting to discover something beyond merely completing the required task?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mixed-motive-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Is exploration attributed to curiosity because of a reported experience, a voluntary choice, or an observer's inference?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mixed-motive-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "curiosity-episode", "name": "Curiosity episode", "description": "Describe what prompts a particular episode, what it concerns, and how it develops.", "rationale": "An agent needs the episode's actual question and trajectory to provide relevant support.", "layers": [ { "id": "trigger-and-object", "name": "Trigger and object", "description": "Identify the encounter and unresolved content around which curiosity is expressed.", "findings": [ { "id": "wanted-discovery", "name": "Wanted discovery", "description": "Record the desired discovery, relevant prior understanding, and any reported trigger such as an anomaly, unfamiliar experience, or unanswered question.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the person want to find out or experience, and how precisely can they currently specify it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "wanted-discovery-q01" }, { "text": "What encounter prompted the episode, and what did the person already believe or know?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "wanted-discovery-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pursuit-and-resolution", "name": "Pursuit and resolution", "description": "Follow inquiry through exploration, answers, redirection, and stopping.", "findings": [ { "id": "episode-transition", "name": "Episode transition", "description": "Distinguish reported satisfaction from interruption, fatigue, inaccessible information, or a shift to a new question.", "questions": [ { "text": "After receiving information, does the person report satisfaction, a revised question, further curiosity, or loss of interest?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "episode-transition-q01" }, { "text": "If inquiry stops, what evidence distinguishes resolution from lack of time, access, confidence, or permission?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "episode-transition-q02" }, { "text": "Would an answer, a hint, or space for further exploration best fit the person's current preference?", "kind": "action", "id": "episode-transition-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "forms-and-context", "name": "Forms and context", "description": "Represent possible varieties of curiosity and the situations in which they appear.", "rationale": "A single curiosity label can obscure differences in emotional experience, object, and persistence across settings.", "layers": [ { "id": "experiential-forms", "name": "Experiential forms", "description": "Examine proposed distinctions without assuming that they form exclusive or universal types.", "findings": [ { "id": "form-profile", "name": "Form profile", "description": "Record whether inquiry concerns understanding, sensory novelty, or social information, and whether not-knowing feels inviting, uncomfortable, or mixed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which proposed distinction helps explain this episode, and what source defines that distinction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "form-profile-q01" }, { "text": "How does the person describe the experience of not knowing, separately from the topic they are exploring?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "form-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "situated-and-dispositional-patterns", "name": "Situated and dispositional patterns", "description": "Separate evidence about one situation from claims about a recurring tendency.", "findings": [ { "id": "pattern-across-opportunities", "name": "Pattern across opportunities", "description": "Record repeated episodes together with opportunities, social expectations, familiarity, and constraints on expressing questions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Across which topics, settings, and times has curiosity been assessed before describing it as a disposition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pattern-across-opportunities-q01" }, { "text": "Could low visible exploration reflect restricted opportunity or discomfort asking questions rather than low curiosity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pattern-across-opportunities-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "assessment-and-inference", "name": "Assessment and inference", "description": "Connect curiosity claims to explicit operationalisations and limits of inference.", "rationale": "Curiosity is not directly established by a click, question, score, or period of attention.", "layers": [ { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "Specify how curiosity is elicited, observed, or reported.", "findings": [ { "id": "measure-to-construct-fit", "name": "Measure to construct fit", "description": "Record the instrument or task, its intended definition of curiosity, scoring method, population, and supporting validation evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What named scale, interview prompt, or exploration task is being used, and which aspect of curiosity is it intended to measure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measure-to-construct-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports this interpretation for the language, population, and context in which it is applied?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "measure-to-construct-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "alternative-explanations", "name": "Alternative explanations", "description": "Assess ambiguity and disagreement among indicators.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-confidence", "name": "Attribution confidence", "description": "Preserve conflicting reports and behavioural evidence, including incentives, accessibility, prior knowledge, and task demands that complicate attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Could the observed searching or persistence be explained by reward, confusion, obligation, or reassurance seeking?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attribution-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "When reported curiosity and observed exploration differ, what additional evidence would clarify the discrepancy?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attribution-confidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "support-and-limits", "name": "Support and limits", "description": "Guide actions that respond to curiosity while respecting the person and the object of inquiry.", "rationale": "Supporting curiosity requires knowing what exploration is wanted, what it costs, and where access or intervention is inappropriate.", "layers": [ { "id": "inquiry-support", "name": "Inquiry support", "description": "Match assistance to the desired discovery and preferred mode of exploration.", "findings": [ { "id": "chosen-depth-and-guidance", "name": "Chosen depth and guidance", "description": "Record whether the person wants direct information, guided discovery, or independent exploration, and assess the result using their stated aim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person prefer a direct answer, a partial clue, a demonstration, or an opportunity to investigate?", "kind": "action", "id": "chosen-depth-and-guidance-q01" }, { "text": "What would show that assistance served the inquiry rather than merely extending engagement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "chosen-depth-and-guidance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consent-costs-and-stopping", "name": "Consent, costs, and stopping", "description": "Represent boundaries around curiosity-driven access and continued pursuit.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-pursuit", "name": "Permitted pursuit", "description": "Separate wanting to know from permission to obtain information, and record the person's limits on attention, expenditure, and continued prompting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does pursuing this question require another person's consent or access to information the agent is not authorised to obtain?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-pursuit-q01" }, { "text": "What stopping preference or resource limit should end further exploration or curiosity prompts?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-pursuit-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes psychological curiosity, not an unusual object called a curiosity.", "The listed kinds belong to overlapping classifications, not six mutually exclusive categories; theories disagree about whether novelty, knowledge gaps or intrinsic information value is fundamental.", "Recalled instruments and distinctions have not been checked against sources here; verify questionnaire scoring, translation validity and suitability for the intended population before use." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of curiosity this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Epistemic curiosity: seeking knowledge or understanding", "Perceptual curiosity: investigating novel or ambiguous sensory stimuli", "Specific curiosity: seeking an answer to a particular question", "Diversive curiosity: seeking varied stimulation without a particular question", "State curiosity: curiosity elicited in a particular situation", "Trait curiosity: a relatively enduring tendency to experience curiosity" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these 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"evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II total score", "typical_range": "Possible range 10-50; this is a scoring range, not a population reference interval", "unit": "Summed questionnaire points" }, { "quantity": "Self-reported state curiosity", "typical_range": "Instrument-dependent; no universal reference range", "unit": "Rating-scale points" }, { "quantity": "Behavioural information seeking", "typical_range": "Task-dependent; measured through information requests, exploratory choices or willingness to incur costs for information", "unit": "Counts, proportions, time or task-specific cost units" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of curiosity this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Exploration can expose a person to physical danger, distressing information or privacy violations.", "Unselective information seeking can consume time and distract from a task.", "Curiosity-provoking headlines and interfaces can attract attention without delivering useful information.", "Questionnaire scores can reflect response styles and overlap with openness, interest or sensation seeking.", "Exploratory behaviour alone does not establish curiosity: rewards, anxiety, boredom or task instructions can produce similar behaviour." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of curiosity this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a curiosity, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise and assess curiosity, distinguish its possible forms, and choose proportionate ways to support inquiry without assuming that information seeking always expresses curiosity.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: morbid curiosity.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 80 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 curiosity, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "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": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "morbid curiosity" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 80 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one curiosity from another, and a curiosity 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity 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 curiosity 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity 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 curiosity from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a curiosity, 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity 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 curiosity 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 curiosity between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a curiosity, 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity 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 curiosity, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a curiosity 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity 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 curiosity 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 curiosity 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 curiosity 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 curiosity 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 curiosity?", "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 curiosity?", "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 curiosity 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 curiosity and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a curiosity, 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity 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 curiosity is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a curiosity, 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 curiosity, 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 curiosity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }