{ "model": { "rank": 1897, "code": "thing-q41831", "model_id": "vr.tr.shahada", "name": "Shahada", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Shahada declaration, record its expression and stated intent, and determine appropriate assistance without presuming a person's belief or religious standing.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q41831/", "tier": 2, "score": 123, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 123, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q41831", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41831", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-06T22:04:16Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 2.1, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 61.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a078bf-40cc-7962-be6e-17e8ac768030\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Shahada\nRegistry id: vr.tr.shahada\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.ACT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy m" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q41831", "registryId": "vr.tr.shahada", "name": "Shahada", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q41831/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.shahada", "name": "Shahada", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Shahada declaration, record its expression and stated intent, and determine appropriate assistance without presuming a person's belief or religious standing.", "definition": "", "scope_statement": "This model owns Shahada as an act of professing Islamic faith under vr.tr.shahada in ACT / ACT.ACT, including its wording, performance, participant accounts and attributed recognition; it distinguishes the declaration from representations of its text.", "in_scope": [ "The declaration's testimony concerning Allah's oneness and Muhammad's messengership", "Actual, intended or reported acts of declaring Shahada", "The declarant's stated purpose, understanding and willingness", "Language, delivery, prompting and accessibility of the declaration", "Witness accounts and recognition attributed to a named community or authority" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Islamic theology and religious doctrine as comprehensive bodies of knowledge", "A person's enduring religious identity, biography or membership record", "Complete prayer, adhan or conversion processes that contain a declaration", "Calligraphy, inscriptions, flags and recordings as independently managed artifacts", "Certificates and civil or institutional consequences governed by neighbouring document and process models" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify testimony to both Allah's oneness and Muhammad's messengership, rather than treating every Islamic invocation as Shahada. [Islamic Relief UK](https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/resources/knowledge-base/five-pillars-of-islam/shahada/)", "Establish whether someone is professing the words, quoting them, practising pronunciation or presenting an inscription; matching text alone does not establish a profession.", "Distinguish a stated declaration of entering Islam from a repeated profession; do not infer a first conversion from an occurrence.", "Distinguish an act embedded in a larger ritual from that entire ritual, and an original declaration from playback of its recording.", "Separate witness presence from religious recognition: SeekersGuidance's cited guidance does not require witnesses for entering Islam, so witness absence must not become a universal rejection rule. [SeekersGuidance](https://seekersguidance.org/answers/calling-to-islam/does-taking-shahada-require-witnesses/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Testimony coverage", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Both testimonies expressed; partial expression; meaning disputed; indeterminate", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition while keeping textual incompleteness separate from judgments about the declarant." }, { "name": "Declared purpose", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Entering Islam; reaffirmation; ritual participation; instruction or rehearsal; quotation; other stated purpose; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents identical words from being assigned identical personal consequences." }, { "name": "Occurrence state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intended; underway; completed as reported; interrupted; occurrence disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes preparation from an occurrence without claiming theological validity." }, { "name": "Expression language and mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded language or languages; spoken, signed, written, assisted or other reported mode", "why_it_matters": "Directs interpretation and accessibility support while leaving mode acceptance to attributed guidance." }, { "name": "Understanding account", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Meaning affirmed by declarant; clarification requested; uncertainty stated; not recorded", "why_it_matters": "Records what the person says they understand without making language fluency a proxy for belief." }, { "name": "Willingness account", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Willingness stated; hesitation stated; pressure reported; accounts conflict; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether to continue requested assistance, clarify or pause." }, { "name": "Declaration evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to declarant account, direct observation, witness account or recording, with attribution", "why_it_matters": "Separates the event from claims and representations concerning it." }, { "name": "Attributed recognition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named recogniser linked to a recognition claim, applicable criteria, date and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one institution's decision from becoming a universal religious verdict." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate Shahada occurrence and distinguish it from quotation, rehearsal or playback.", "Offer requested wording, meaning or pronunciation assistance with an identified source.", "Record a declaration and its stated purpose while preserving uncertainty and attribution.", "Compare an expression against a specified tradition's guidance and flag questions for a qualified human.", "Prepare a declarant-authorised account for a chosen recipient without inventing witnesses or certification.", "Pause facilitation when the declarant withdraws or reports pressure, and correct mistaken conversion inferences." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "testimony-and-expression", "name": "Testimony and expression", "description": "What was expressed and whether it is recognisable as Shahada.", "rationale": "Recognition depends on the testimony's meaning and use, not merely a familiar Arabic string.", "layers": [ { "id": "testimony-content", "name": "Testimony content", "description": "Identify the declaration's constituent assertions.", "findings": [ { "id": "two-testimonies", "name": "Two testimonies", "description": "Record the expression concerning Allah and the expression concerning Muhammad separately, retaining missing or ambiguous content.", "questions": [ { "text": "What words or communicative expressions convey each of the two testimonies?", "kind": "definition", "id": "two-testimonies-q01" }, { "text": "Is the available expression complete, an excerpt or an uncertain transcription?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "two-testimonies-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "wording-and-interpretation", "name": "Wording and interpretation", "description": "Preserve language and variation without silently normalising meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "expression-variant", "name": "Expression variant", "description": "Retain the original expression, any translation and the source of claims about acceptable variation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which language, transliteration or translation was used, and who supplied it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "expression-variant-q01" }, { "text": "Which named guidance addresses this wording, any additions and any disputed omissions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "expression-variant-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "profession-and-intent", "name": "Profession and intent", "description": "Whether and why the person presents the expression as their own declaration.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish profession from quotation and avoid inventing inward conviction.", "layers": [ { "id": "declarative-purpose", "name": "Declarative purpose", "description": "Establish the intended function of this occurrence.", "findings": [ { "id": "professing-or-reproducing", "name": "Professing or reproducing", "description": "Use attributed accounts to distinguish entering Islam, reaffirmation, ritual use, rehearsal and quotation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person describe these words as their own profession, and for what purpose?", "kind": "definition", "id": "professing-or-reproducing-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this occurrence from teaching, acting, quotation or pronunciation practice?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "professing-or-reproducing-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "understanding-and-willingness", "name": "Understanding and willingness", "description": "Capture the declarant's account of meaning and choice.", "findings": [ { "id": "self-reported-assent", "name": "Self-reported assent", "description": "Record expressed understanding, willingness or hesitation without scoring sincerity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the declarant say they understand and affirm about the testimony?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "self-reported-assent-q01" }, { "text": "Has the declarant requested clarification, reported pressure or asked to pause?", "kind": "action", "id": "self-reported-assent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "declaration-occurrence", "name": "Declaration occurrence", "description": "The particular performance, its boundaries and its available evidence.", "rationale": "A planned declaration, a repeated declaration and a replay must not collapse into one event.", "layers": [ { "id": "performance-boundaries", "name": "Performance boundaries", "description": "Locate this declaration within its immediate activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-performance", "name": "Bounded performance", "description": "Record whether the declaration occurred independently or within another activity and how its completion is known.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this an independent declaration or part of a larger ritual, lesson or ceremony?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-performance-q01" }, { "text": "What establishes that this occurrence was intended, started, completed or interrupted?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-performance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "delivery-and-observation", "name": "Delivery and observation", "description": "How the expression was communicated and what observers actually perceived.", "findings": [ { "id": "communicated-declaration", "name": "Communicated declaration", "description": "Separate the declarant's communication from prompting, interpretation, recordings and observer inference.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did the declarant communicate, and what prompting, interpretation or accessibility assistance was used?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "communicated-declaration-q01" }, { "text": "Does each account describe direct participation, direct observation, hearsay or playback?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "communicated-declaration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-follow-through", "name": "Recognition and follow-through", "description": "Attributed recognition of the declaration and the next actions the declarant requests.", "rationale": "The agent needs actionable distinctions between recording an act, reporting recognition and representing a person's religious status.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognition-criteria", "name": "Recognition criteria", "description": "Keep religious guidance and institutional procedures attached to their sources.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-acceptance", "name": "Attributed acceptance", "description": "Represent who recognises the declaration, under which criteria, and what remains unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who, if anyone, has recognised this declaration, and what exactly did they recognise?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-acceptance-q01" }, { "text": "Are witness or documentation requirements attributed to religious guidance, a local institution or a separate administrative process?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-acceptance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "requested-next-actions", "name": "Requested next actions", "description": "Connect assistance and disclosure to the declarant's expressed wishes.", "findings": [ { "id": "authorised-follow-through", "name": "Authorised follow-through", "description": "Determine whether the next step is explanation, human referral, private recording or an authorised institutional handoff.", "questions": [ { "text": "What help does the declarant request after this declaration, and which neighbouring process owns that help?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorised-follow-through-q01" }, { "text": "What account of the declaration may be retained or shared, with whom, and on whose authorisation?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorised-follow-through-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own Shahada or an equivalent profession-of-faith concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Which recognised traditions' guidance must be represented for wording variants, additional phrases and the distinction between core testimony and accompanying declarations?", "How do relevant authorities address non-Arabic declarations, signing, assisted communication and inability to speak?", "Which sources distinguish private religious recognition from community acknowledgement and institutional documentation requirements?", "How should incomplete, prompted or disputed declarations be represented when the declarant's own account is unavailable, without assigning belief or religious status?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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. 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 Shahada, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Shahada declaration, record its expression and stated intent, and determine appropriate assistance without presuming a person's belief or religious standing.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 123 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 Shahada, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "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": [], "standing": "Described in 123 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 Shahada from another, and a Shahada 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada 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 Shahada 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada 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 Shahada from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Shahada, 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada 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 Shahada 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 Shahada between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Shahada, 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada 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 Shahada, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Shahada 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a Shahada proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a Shahada, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a Shahada and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a Shahada, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a Shahada, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a Shahada is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a Shahada consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Shahada takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a Shahada, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a Shahada, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a Shahada 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 Shahada 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 Shahada 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 Shahada 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 Shahada 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 Shahada?", "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 Shahada?", "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 Shahada 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 Shahada and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Shahada, 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada 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 Shahada is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Shahada, 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 Shahada, 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 Shahada 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 } } } }