{ "model": { "rank": 6812, "code": "thing-q4162555", "model_id": "vr.tr.fin", "name": "fin", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a fin, record its attachment and condition, and judge its role in propulsion, stability or control within a surrounding fluid.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q4162555/", "tier": 2, "score": 58, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "dorsal fin", "anal fin", "pelvic fin", "pectoral fin", "cephalopod fin", "caudal fin", "fluke", "homocercal caudal fin", "heterocercal caudal fin" ], "aliasCount": 9, "merged": 9, "knownIn": 58, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.fin-animal", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q4162555", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4162555", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:33:25Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08884-0ea8-72e2-93da-5484c7598962\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: fin\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 007: 1001 registered ", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 55, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08884-0eaf-70c2-805a-80f8b739d615\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: fin\nRegistry id: vr.tr.fin\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext for this" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q4162555", "registryId": "vr.tr.fin", "name": "fin", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q4162555/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.fin", "name": "fin", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a fin, record its attachment and condition, and judge its role in propulsion, stability or control within a surrounding fluid.", "definition": "A fin is an external appendage of an aquatic animal, typically flattened and supported by skeletal elements or connective tissue, that contributes to propulsion, stability, steering or other specialized functions.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally models a fin as a biological or manufactured projecting surface associated with movement or orientation in water or air; the registry's intended sense remains unresolved because no definition is recorded.", "in_scope": [ "Biological fins considered as functional body structures", "Manufactured fins used for propulsion, stability or directional control", "Fin geometry, supporting structure and exposed surface", "Attachment to a body, hull, board, vehicle or wearer", "Passive and actively moved operating configurations", "Damage and restrictions affecting the fin's intended function" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The complete organism, vehicle, board or wearable assembly", "Whole-body locomotion and vehicle guidance systems", "Detailed actuator, muscle or nervous-system models", "Heat-transfer fins, pending resolution of the registry sense", "Wings, flippers, rudders and propeller blades as independent kinds; their overlap with fin requires explicit classification", "Individual product specifications and species descriptions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Look for a projecting surface whose identified role involves interaction with surrounding water or air, rather than assuming every thin projection is a fin.", "Determine whether the surface belongs to a biological body or a manufactured assembly; similar shapes do not establish equivalent structure or permissible handling.", "Check how it moves: a fixed stabilising surface, an oscillating propulsive surface and a deflectable control surface require different fin descriptions.", "Use anatomical or engineering context to distinguish a fin from a wing, flipper, rudder or blade; shape alone may not settle the name.", "Distinguish fluid-force functions from heat-dissipation functions before applying this provisional scope." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Fin context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "biological; manufactured; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which structural descriptions and interventions apply." }, { "name": "Host and attachment location", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "host reference plus anatomical or engineering location", "why_it_matters": "Locates the fin and establishes the frame for interpreting its orientation." }, { "name": "Functional role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "propulsion; directional stability; manoeuvring; trim; multiple; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Connects observations of the fin to the behaviour it is intended to support." }, { "name": "Operating medium", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "water; air; other specified fluid; variable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents performance assumptions from being transferred between incompatible environments." }, { "name": "Exposed geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "span and chord in m; projected area in m²; measurement convention recorded", "why_it_matters": "Describes the working surface and supports comparison of deployment or damage states." }, { "name": "Orientation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "degrees relative to a named host axis or local flow direction", "why_it_matters": "Separates mounting orientation from the angle experienced in operation." }, { "name": "Structural support", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed or documented biological supports, membrane, solid structure or composite construction", "why_it_matters": "Explains how the surface retains or changes shape under load." }, { "name": "Motion mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "fixed; passively flexible; actively deflected; oscillating; deployable; combined", "why_it_matters": "Identifies whether useful action depends on motion, deformation or deployment." }, { "name": "Deployment state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "exposed; folded; retracted; partially deployed; not applicable; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes installed geometry from the currently available working surface." }, { "name": "Surface and attachment condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact; torn; cracked; deformed; eroded; fouled; loose; detached; unknown, with location and extent", "why_it_matters": "Supports a specific assessment of impaired function and permissible use." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a fin's host, location and likely functional role while recording uncertainty.", "Measure its exposed outline and orientation using an explicit reference frame.", "Observe its movement and deformation through a relevant operating cycle.", "Inspect its surface, supports and attachment for loss of integrity.", "Assess whether a manufactured fin can be deployed, adjusted or replaced using documented constraints.", "Refer biological injury or unresolved operating limits for appropriate specialist assessment." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "fin-identity-and-boundary", "name": "Fin identity and boundary", "description": "Establishes which sense of fin applies and where the fin ends within its host.", "rationale": "The name alone does not distinguish biological structures, manufactured flow surfaces and thermal projections.", "layers": [ { "id": "fin-sense", "name": "Fin sense", "description": "Records the evidence supporting classification as a fin in the provisional fluid-interaction scope.", "findings": [ { "id": "context-supported-identification", "name": "Context-supported identification", "description": "Treat identification as a claim supported by anatomical, engineering or usage context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies this structure as a fin, and does that evidence describe a biological or manufactured structure?", "kind": "definition", "id": "context-supported-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Does the term refer to a fluid-force surface, a heat-transfer projection or another sense?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "context-supported-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "host-and-part-boundary", "name": "Host and part boundary", "description": "Locates the fin and separates its own structure from neighbouring parts.", "findings": [ { "id": "fin-root-and-host", "name": "Fin root and host", "description": "Record the host, attachment region and convention used to delimit the fin.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organism or manufactured assembly carries the fin, and where is its root or attachment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "fin-root-and-host-q01" }, { "text": "Are supporting tissues, mounting hardware and movable joints included in this fin description or owned by adjacent models?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "fin-root-and-host-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "working-surface-and-support", "name": "Working surface and support", "description": "Describes the exposed shape and the structures that maintain or alter it.", "rationale": "A fin's outline alone cannot establish how much working surface is available or how it behaves under loading.", "layers": [ { "id": "fin-geometry", "name": "Fin geometry", "description": "Captures dimensions and orientation without assuming a rigid or permanently exposed surface.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposed-outline", "name": "Exposed outline", "description": "Record the fin's measured outline in a specified deployment and loading state.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the fin's span, chord and projected area, and how were their boundaries defined?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposed-outline-q01" }, { "text": "In what deployment, posture and loading state were those dimensions measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposed-outline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fin-support-and-flexibility", "name": "Fin support and flexibility", "description": "Identifies how the fin carries load and which parts can deform.", "findings": [ { "id": "shape-support", "name": "Shape support", "description": "Distinguish the exposed surface from its supports and record observed flexibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "What tissues, rays, spines, membranes or manufactured members support this particular fin?", "kind": "definition", "id": "shape-support-q01" }, { "text": "How does its shape change under a documented load or observed operating condition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "shape-support-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fluid-role-and-motion", "name": "Fluid role and motion", "description": "Relates the fin's function to local flow, orientation and movement.", "rationale": "Fixed stabilisation, active control and oscillating propulsion cannot be assessed through the same operating assumptions.", "layers": [ { "id": "functional-contribution", "name": "Functional contribution", "description": "Records the fin's attributed contribution and the conditions under which it is supported.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-in-flow", "name": "Role in flow", "description": "Keep intended function distinct from demonstrated effects on the host.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this fin used for propulsion, stability, manoeuvring or trim, and what observation or documentation supports that role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "role-in-flow-q01" }, { "text": "For what fluid, relative flow conditions and host posture has that contribution been observed or specified?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "role-in-flow-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fin-motion-and-deployment", "name": "Fin motion and deployment", "description": "Describes fixed, flexible and actively moved operating configurations.", "findings": [ { "id": "available-fin-configurations", "name": "Available fin configurations", "description": "Record how the fin changes orientation, exposed area or shape, including the source of movement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the fin fixed, passively deforming, actively moved or deployable, and what produces that movement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "available-fin-configurations-q01" }, { "text": "What orientation range, deployment range or oscillation pattern is observed or documented?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "available-fin-configurations-q02" }, { "text": "Which configuration 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"measurement", "id": "localised-fin-impairment-q01" }, { "text": "Is the root or mounting secure, and does observed movement indicate intended articulation or unwanted looseness?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "localised-fin-impairment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fin-specific-response", "name": "Fin-specific response", "description": "Determines what action is justified for the identified fin context and observed condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-response-to-impairment", "name": "Permitted response to impairment", "description": "Tie continued use, adjustment, repair or referral to evidence specific to the fin and host.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented criterion or specialist assessment determines whether this fin's condition restricts movement or operation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permitted-response-to-impairment-q01" }, { "text": "Given the biological or manufactured context, is observation, restricted use, adjustment, repair, replacement or specialist referral appropriate?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-response-to-impairment-q02" }, { "text": "What inspection or functional observation would establish that the chosen intervention restored the required fin condition?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-response-to-impairment-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense is recorded; this description assumes the biological meaning. The PHY.OBJ domain alone does not distinguish it from engineered fins.", "The six listed kinds describe common fish anatomy and are not present in every species.", "Fin dimensions, supporting tissues and specialized functions vary widely; no universal typical measurement range is supplied." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of fin 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": [ "Dorsal fin", "Caudal fin", "Anal fin", "Pectoral fin", "Pelvic fin", "Adipose fin" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of fin this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Generating thrust during swimming", "Controlling direction and body orientation", "Stabilizing the body against unwanted rotation", "Braking and maneuvering", "Supporting species identification through fin position, shape and ray counts" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of fin 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": [ "Injury or loss can impair swimming performance, depending on the fin and species.", "Infection can damage fin tissue.", "Fin spines in some species can cause puncture wounds; some also deliver venom." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of fin this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "flipper", "difference": "A flipper is a flattened swimming limb, especially in aquatic tetrapods; the terminology overlaps with fin in ordinary usage." }, { "name": "tail", "difference": "The tail is the posterior body region; a caudal fin is a distinct structure associated with that region." }, { "name": "engineered stabilizing fin", "difference": "An engineered fin is a manufactured surface used to influence motion through a fluid rather than an anatomical appendage." }, { "name": "heat-transfer fin", "difference": "A heat-transfer fin increases the surface area available for heat exchange rather than primarily supporting locomotion." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of fin this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.fin designate a biological appendage, an engineered fluid-force surface, a heat-transfer fin or a broader concept?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own the intended concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate model?", "Which registry boundaries distinguish fin from flipper, wing, rudder, skeg and swimming fin without creating duplicate models?", "Which anatomical references or engineering sources establish the relevant fin subtypes and their supported functional roles?", "Which measurement conventions, operating limits and condition criteria apply to the intended subtype, and where must they remain host-specific?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 23 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a fin 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 fin, 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 fin, 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 fin 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 fin 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 fin, 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 fin, 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 fin 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 fin from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a fin, 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 fin, 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 fin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a fin is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a fin, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a fin, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a fin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a fin is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a fin, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a fin, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a fin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a fin is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a fin, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a fin, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a fin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a fin is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a fin is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a fin, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a fin, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a fin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a fin is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a fin, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a fin, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a fin 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 fin 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 fin between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a fin, 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 fin, 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 fin 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 fin, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a fin 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 fin, 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 fin, 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 fin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What fin is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does fin perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise fin, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How fin is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does fin have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does fin need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about fin is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about fin hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern fin, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a fin 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 fin and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a fin, 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 fin, 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 fin 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 fin is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a fin, 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 fin, 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 fin is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, 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