{ "model": { "rank": 6197, "code": "thing-q464859", "model_id": "vr.tr.sexual-attraction", "name": "sexual attraction", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and describe reported sexual attraction, distinguish it from neighbouring experiences, and judge what interpretations or actions the available evidence supports.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q464859/", "tier": 2, "score": 62, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "sapiosexuality", "Toonophilia", "same-sex attraction", "genetic sexual attraction", "attraction to transgender people", "fictosexuality", "andromimetophilia", "T4T", "gynandromorphophilia", "gynemimetophilia", "animesexuality", "Nijikon", "Poképhilia" ], "aliasCount": 13, "merged": 13, "knownIn": 62, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q464859", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464859", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:52:56Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.3, "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: 01a0885e-fa0b-7ea2-b389-1ff656ae7dc0\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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and sexual behaviour, although research definitions and measures vary.", "scope_statement": "This model owns sexual attraction as an experienced or reported sexual pull toward another person or a described class of people, including competing definitions, patterns, context and uncertainty; it does not treat attraction as proof of identity, behaviour or consent.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions of sexual attraction and the perspectives that use them", "Reported experiences of person-directed sexual interest", "Direction, intensity, frequency and temporal pattern of attraction", "Reported conditions under which attraction emerges, changes or is absent", "Operationalisations and limits of evidence used to describe attraction", "Boundaries on interpretation, disclosure and action" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Sexual orientation identities and their broader social meanings", "General libido and physiological sexual arousal considered independently of attraction", "Romantic attachment, aesthetic appreciation and other forms of interpersonal attraction", "Sexual behaviour, relationship agreements and consent decisions", "Clinical diagnosis, treatment and explanations of sexual functioning" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Ask whether the experience has a sexual quality for the person reporting it; finding someone beautiful or wanting emotional closeness alone does not establish sexual attraction.", "Ask whether sexual interest is directed toward someone or a described class of people; a general desire for sexual stimulation alone does not distinguish attraction from libido.", "Require an explicit account of attraction rather than substituting bodily arousal, fantasy or observed sexual behaviour for it.", "Distinguish a particular attraction experience from a persistent pattern and from the identity label a person chooses.", "Record attraction separately from willingness to engage sexually: an attraction report does not answer whether any particular interaction is wanted or consented to." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Definition in use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Person's own description; named research definition; other explicit definition; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Different definitions can classify the same reported experience differently." }, { "name": "Reported direction", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Experiencer reports attraction toward a person or self-described class of people; unspecified; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what the attraction is directed toward without deriving identities or demographic attributes." }, { "name": "Reported presence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Present; explicitly absent; uncertain; fluctuating; not reported, within a specified context and time window", "why_it_matters": "Separates absence of attraction from absence of information." }, { "name": "Reported intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Person-defined ordinal scale or named instrument, with anchors and time window; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison only where the meaning and reference period of the ratings are clear." }, { "name": "Reported frequency", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Episodes per stated interval or explicitly anchored frequency categories; not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes isolated experiences from recurring patterns without assuming that episodes have natural boundaries." }, { "name": "Reported emergence conditions", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Immediate; following familiarity or emotional connection; other self-described conditions; no identified conditions; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Preserves conditions the person considers relevant without imposing an identity label or causal explanation." }, { "name": "Temporal course", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Newly noticed; continuing; intermittent; changed; ended; uncertain, with observation dates", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a report about one period from becoming a permanent assertion." }, { "name": "Evidence basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Direct self-report; questionnaire response; retrospective account; third-party interpretation; unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Makes the difference between reported experience and external inference visible." } ], "affordances": [ "Ask a person how they distinguish sexual attraction from arousal, libido, romance and aesthetic appreciation.", "Record a voluntary account with its wording, context, reference period and unresolved ambiguity.", "Compare reports over time when definitions and measurement anchors are compatible.", "Represent absent, rare, conditional or uncertain attraction without assigning an orientation identity.", "Flag interpretations that improperly infer attraction from appearance, bodily response or behaviour.", "Identify when a proposed action requires separate consent or permission to disclose personal information." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-boundaries", "name": "Meaning and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what sexual attraction means in the account being modelled and what would qualify as an instance.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and the model must expose definitional choices rather than silently settle them.", "layers": [ { "id": "definitions-and-perspectives", "name": "Definitions and perspectives", "description": "Records the person's terminology and any research framework used to interpret it.", "findings": [ { "id": "sexual-quality-and-directedness", "name": "Sexual quality and directedness", "description": "Record how an account identifies an experience as sexual and whether directedness toward someone is required by its definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What makes this experience sexual attraction in the person's own terms, and does that account require a wish for sexual contact?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sexual-quality-and-directedness-q01" }, { "text": "Whose definition is being used, and where can its exact wording and context be checked?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sexual-quality-and-directedness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-experiences", "name": "Neighbouring experiences", "description": "Separates attraction from experiences that may accompany it or be confused with it.", "findings": [ { "id": "attraction-without-proxy-substitution", "name": "Attraction without proxy substitution", "description": "Record attraction, libido, arousal, romantic interest and aesthetic appreciation separately wherever the account permits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person distinguish this sexual pull from general libido, bodily arousal, admiration or a wish for romance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attraction-without-proxy-substitution-q01" }, { "text": "What supports identifying attraction here beyond observed behaviour, fantasy content or a physiological response?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attraction-without-proxy-substitution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "direction-and-experience", "name": "Direction and experience", "description": "Describes whom attraction concerns and how its presence and strength are experienced.", "rationale": "Recognising sexual attraction requires a situated account of its direction and felt character, not merely an orientation label.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-direction", "name": "Reported direction", "description": "Captures the target of attraction at the level of specificity the person chooses.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-specific-and-general-reports", "name": "Person-specific and general reports", "description": "Distinguish attraction toward a particular person from a report about a broader pattern, retaining the reporter's own categories.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this account about attraction toward a particular person, multiple people or a self-described class of people?", "kind": "definition", "id": "person-specific-and-general-reports-q01" }, { "text": "Which details are explicitly reported, and which would otherwise be inferred from another person's appearance or presumed identity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "person-specific-and-general-reports-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "presence-and-strength", "name": "Presence and strength", "description": "Represents present, absent and uncertain attraction with interpretable ratings where useful.", "findings": [ { "id": "anchored-experience-report", "name": "Anchored experience report", "description": "Attach presence and intensity descriptions to a stated person or pattern, context and reference period.", "questions": [ { "text": "Within which time window and context is attraction reported as present, absent or uncertain?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "anchored-experience-report-q01" }, { "text": "If intensity is rated, what do the scale anchors mean to this person, and can those meanings be compared across reports?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "anchored-experience-report-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conditions-and-temporal-patterns", "name": "Conditions and temporal patterns", "description": "Represents when attraction arises and how reports develop across time.", "rationale": "A single episode, recurring attraction and attraction described as conditional require different interpretations.", "layers": [ { "id": "emergence-conditions", "name": "Emergence conditions", "description": "Records reported prerequisites and relevant circumstances without treating associations as established causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "connection-and-context", "name": "Connection and context", "description": "Capture whether familiarity, emotional connection or other circumstances are described as necessary, facilitating or merely coincident.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person describe emotional connection, familiarity or another condition as necessary for their sexual attraction to emerge?", "kind": "definition", "id": "connection-and-context-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a perceived prerequisite from a circumstance that happened to accompany attraction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "connection-and-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episodes-and-longer-patterns", "name": "Episodes and longer patterns", "description": "Separates dated experiences from summaries of frequency, continuity and change.", "findings": [ { "id": "change-without-identity-assignment", "name": "Change without identity assignment", "description": "Record changes, rarity and absence over a defined period while leaving identity labels to the person.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are episodes counted, and what period supports describing attraction as recurring, rare, intermittent or absent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "change-without-identity-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Does a changed report describe a changed experience, changed terminology, changed willingness to disclose or an unresolved combination?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "change-without-identity-assignment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-permitted-use", "name": "Evidence and permitted use", "description": "Constrains how attraction is assessed, interpreted and used in decisions affecting people.", "rationale": "Attraction concerns private experience, and its assessment must not silently become an identity assignment, consent decision or disclosure.", "layers": [ { "id": "operationalisation-and-evidence", "name": "Operationalisation and evidence", "description": "Makes the assessment method, wording and inferential limits inspectable.", "findings": [ { "id": "measure-matches-construct", "name": "Measure matches construct", "description": "Record whether an instrument asks about attraction itself or measures a neighbouring construct used as a proxy.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact question, instrument or observation produced this record, and what construct does its source claim to assess?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "measure-matches-construct-q01" }, { "text": "Does the method separate sexual attraction from desire, arousal, identity and behaviour, and how does it represent uncertainty or nonresponse?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measure-matches-construct-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consent-and-disclosure-boundaries", "name": "Consent and disclosure boundaries", "description": "Separates an attraction report from permission for sexual interaction or permission to share that report.", "findings": [ { "id": "attraction-does-not-authorise-action", "name": "Attraction does not authorise action", "description": "Require independent grounds for proposed interaction, disclosure or identity labelling rather than deriving permission from attraction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is anyone treating reported attraction as consent to a particular sexual interaction, and what separate consent information is actually available?", "kind": "action", "id": "attraction-does-not-authorise-action-q01" }, { "text": "What permission and task need support recording or sharing this account, and can the task be completed with less identifying detail?", "kind": "action", "id": "attraction-does-not-authorise-action-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 is a recall-based account; no sources were consulted.", "The listed kinds describe target-gender patterns, not an exhaustive taxonomy or automatic identity labels.", "A researcher should check each instrument's definition, recall period, and separation of attraction from desire, arousal, identity, and behaviour." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of sexual attraction 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": [ "Attraction to people of a different gender", "Attraction to people of the same gender", "Attraction to people of more than one gender" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of sexual attraction 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": [ "Studied as one dimension of sexual orientation alongside identity and behaviour.", "Used in sexuality surveys to describe patterns of attraction over specified periods.", "Discussed in relationship counselling and sexuality education to distinguish attraction from intentions, actions, and consent.", "Used in research on asexuality to distinguish little or no sexual attraction from abstinence or low general sexual desire." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of sexual attraction this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Self-reported intensity of sexual attraction", "typical_range": "Instrument-specific ratings from no attraction to strong attraction; no universal reference range", "unit": "Ordinal rating" }, { "quantity": "Self-reported frequency of sexual attraction", "typical_range": "Never to frequently within a stated recall period; categories vary by instrument", "unit": "Frequency category" }, { "quantity": "Pattern of attraction by target gender", "typical_range": "Instrument-specific categorical responses or separate ratings for different genders", "unit": "Category or ordinal rating" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of sexual attraction 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": [ "Inferring consent, willingness, or intended behaviour from attraction.", "Treating attraction, physiological arousal, sexual behaviour, and identity as interchangeable measures.", "Treating little or no sexual attraction as inherently pathological.", "Assuming a reported attraction determines a permanent identity or predicts every future relationship.", "Using disclosure of attraction to stigmatise people or expose sensitive personal information." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of sexual attraction this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Languages and cultural frameworks differ in how they distinguish sexual attraction, romantic interest, desire, and identity.", "Social acceptance and disclosure conditions affect reported attraction, 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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 sexual attraction, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise and describe reported sexual attraction, distinguish it from neighbouring experiences, and judge what interpretations or actions the available evidence supports.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: sapiosexuality, Toonophilia, same-sex attraction, genetic sexual attraction, attraction to transgender people, fictosexuality, andromimetophilia, T4T, gynandromorphophilia, gynemimetophilia, animesexuality, Nijikon.", "13 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 62 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 sexual attraction, 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": [ { "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": [ "sapiosexuality", "Toonophilia", "same-sex attraction", "genetic sexual attraction", "attraction to transgender people", "fictosexuality", "andromimetophilia", "T4T", "gynandromorphophilia", "gynemimetophilia", "animesexuality", "Nijikon" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 13 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 sexual attraction from another, and a sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction?", "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 sexual attraction?", "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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 sexual attraction is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction, 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 sexual attraction 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 } } } }