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"scope_statement": "This model owns tarot deck as a kind of physical card set in PHY.OBJ, registered as vr.tr.tarot-deck, including the composition, visual conventions and handling properties needed to assess particular examples.", "in_scope": [ "Tarot-specific card composition and declared variants", "Card identities, suits, ordering and correspondence within the deck", "Deck tradition, artwork system and edition identification", "Physical properties relevant to shuffling, drawing and identifying cards", "Completeness, condition and compatibility of replacement cards", "Suitability for declared gaming, interpretive, study or display uses" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Tarot reading as an activity and the interpretation of a particular spread", "Claims that cards predict events or establish facts about people", "Rules of individual tarot games beyond the deck requirements they impose", "Standalone artwork, symbolic systems and their full interpretation", "Publishing organisations, ownership transactions and market valuation", "Digital tarot applications and oracle decks lacking a declared tarot correspondence" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The card inventory exhibits an identifiable tarot organisation of suited cards and a distinct trump sequence, with the Fool's placement or role recorded according to the tradition.", "A conventional 78-card inventory can be checked for 56 suited cards and 22 cards commonly grouped as major arcana; departures require an explicit variant inventory.", "Compared with an ordinary suited playing-card pack, the deck has tarot-specific additional card identities or a documented reduced tarot composition.", "Compared with a freely structured oracle deck, its identities can be mapped to a declared tarot tradition, even when titles, suits or imagery are renamed.", "A physical example consists of separate cards intended to function together; a book of tarot illustrations or an application displaying them is a neighbouring kind." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Declared tarot tradition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named tradition or system; hybrid; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Provides the reference for interpreting card identities, ordering and composition without assuming all decks follow one convention." }, { "name": "Expected card inventory", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Edition-specific list of required card identities and permitted extras", "why_it_matters": "Makes completeness assessable for conventional, reduced and expanded decks." }, { "name": "Present card count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "cards, with required cards and extras counted separately", "why_it_matters": "Supports inventory checks while avoiding the assumption that the correct total guarantees the correct cards." }, { "name": "Suit and rank vocabulary", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Printed suit names, court ranks and mappings to the declared system", "why_it_matters": "Allows renamed suits and courts to be recognised without erasing edition-specific distinctions." }, { "name": "Trump and Fool identification", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Card titles and printed numbers mapped to their declared sequence and roles", "why_it_matters": "Prevents misidentification when numbering, naming or placement varies." }, { "name": "Card dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Width, height and thickness in mm", "why_it_matters": "Determines handling accessibility, sleeve fit and replacement compatibility." }, { "name": "Back orientation visibility", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Orientation concealed; orientation visible; mixed; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Affects whether card orientation can be inferred before a card is revealed." }, { "name": "Inventory integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Complete for declared edition; missing identities; unintended duplicates; mixed editions; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a usable complete set from one that merely has the expected number of cards." }, { "name": "Face-down distinguishability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "No distinguishing marks observed; identifiable wear or marks; incompatible replacement backs; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Revealed identities can affect concealed drawing or gameplay." }, { "name": "Edition reference", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified title, creator, publisher, edition and supporting reference where available", "why_it_matters": "Anchors composition and artwork checks to the correct release." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the deck's declared tradition and map unfamiliar card titles to its inventory.", "Audit missing cards, unintended duplicates and edition-specific extras.", "Shuffle, cut, draw, deal and arrange cards where condition and intended use permit.", "Select a suitable subset for a documented game or exercise while preserving the complete inventory.", "Check whether wear, backs or replacements expose card identities or orientation.", "Choose fitted sleeves, storage and handling methods that preserve card readability and consistency." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tarot-identity-and-boundary", "name": "Tarot identity and boundary", "description": "Establishes which tarot system the physical set instantiates and where its boundary lies.", "rationale": "Tarot branding, familiar imagery and card count alone do not establish how a set relates to tarot composition.", "layers": [ { "id": "declared-system", "name": "Declared system", "description": "Records the organising tradition claimed for the deck.", "findings": [ { "id": "tradition-correspondence", "name": "Tradition correspondence", "description": "Identify the declared tradition and check how the actual cards correspond to it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tarot tradition or system does the creator or publisher identify for this deck?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tradition-correspondence-q01" }, { "text": "Which card identities and groupings support that correspondence, and which depart from it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tradition-correspondence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "variant-boundary", "name": "Variant boundary", "description": "Distinguishes tarot variants from neighbouring card sets and accessories.", "findings": [ { "id": "variant-and-extra-card-status", "name": "Variant and extra-card status", "description": "Separate constitutive tarot cards from optional additions and unrelated packaged material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is an unusual composition a documented tarot variant, an incomplete example or a different kind of card set?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "variant-and-extra-card-status-q01" }, { "text": "Which extra cards belong to the playable or interpretable deck, and which are reference, promotional or replacement cards?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "variant-and-extra-card-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "card-inventory-and-correspondence", "name": "Card inventory and correspondence", "description": "Defines the identities expected in the deck and how to recognise them.", "rationale": "Completeness requires an identity-level audit because totals can conceal missing cards or duplicates.", "layers": [ { "id": "suited-card-organisation", "name": "Suited-card organisation", "description": "Captures suit membership, numbered cards and court ranks.", "findings": [ { "id": "suit-and-court-map", "name": "Suit and court map", "description": "Record the edition's suit and rank vocabulary without forcing renamed cards into unsupported equivalences.", "questions": [ { "text": "What suits, numbered ranks and court identities are expected in this edition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "suit-and-court-map-q01" }, { "text": "How are renamed or visually ambiguous suits and courts mapped by the deck's own documentation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "suit-and-court-map-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "trumps-fool-and-completeness", "name": "Trumps, Fool and completeness", "description": "Captures the distinct sequence and verifies the full set against its declared inventory.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-level-inventory", "name": "Identity-level inventory", "description": "Check required cards individually, preserving differences in titles, numbers and the Fool's treatment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What trump sequence and Fool identity does this edition specify, including unnumbered or alternatively numbered cards?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-level-inventory-q01" }, { "text": "Which required identities are present, absent or unintentionally duplicated after optional extras are separated?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "identity-level-inventory-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "visual-language-and-edition", "name": "Visual language and edition", "description": "Connects card recognition to imagery, labels and the correct edition reference.", "rationale": "Tarot decks can share identities while substantially changing their imagery, titles and visual cues.", "layers": [ { "id": "face-recognition", "name": "Face recognition", "description": "Examines the visual evidence by which individual cards can be identified.", "findings": [ { "id": "card-identification-cues", "name": "Card identification cues", "description": "Record usable titles, numerals, suit marks and imagery, including ambiguity introduced by artistic redesign.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which printed or visual cues reliably identify each card when titles, numerals or conventional suit symbols are absent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "card-identification-cues-q01" }, { "text": "Are numbered suit cards represented through repeated suit symbols, narrative scenes or another documented visual scheme?", "kind": "definition", "id": "card-identification-cues-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "edition-attribution", "name": "Edition attribution", "description": "Identifies the release whose inventory and 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"name": "Handling and restoration options", "description": "Determine suitable handling and protective measures while preserving a consistent, identifiable set.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do card size, stiffness, sticking, warping or surface wear interfere with the intended shuffling, dealing or layout?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "handling-and-restoration-options-q01" }, { "text": "Which handling method, sleeves or replacement cards would support the intended use while preserving uniform backs and card identities?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-and-restoration-options-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", 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"name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Cards in a common full deck", "typical_range": "78", "unit": "cards" }, { "quantity": "Suited cards in a common full deck", "typical_range": "56, divided into four suits of 14", "unit": "cards" }, { "quantity": "Numbered trumps in a common full deck, excluding the Fool", "typical_range": "21", "unit": "cards" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of tarot deck 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": [ "Missing or duplicated cards alter the deck's composition and can invalidate play.", "Distinctive wear, printing defects or damaged backs 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[ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a tarot deck 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 tarot deck 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.", 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the location of a tarot deck, 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 tarot deck 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 tarot deck 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 tarot deck, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit 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"Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a tarot deck, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a tarot deck 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 tarot deck, 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 tarot deck, 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 tarot deck 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 tarot deck 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 tarot deck 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 tarot deck, 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 tarot deck 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 tarot deck 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 tarot deck 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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 tarot deck, 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 tarot deck came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim 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"claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a tarot deck 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 tarot deck is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tarot deck, 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 tarot 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