{ "model": { "rank": 6643, "code": "thing-q629608", "model_id": "vr.tr.kafir", "name": "kafir", "purpose": "Enable an agent to interpret and document uses of kafir as an attributed religious classification without treating the label as an objective property of a person.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q629608/", "tier": 2, "score": 59, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Harbi" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 59, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q629608", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q629608", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:11:51Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20, "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: 01a08870-5407-7793-b6f8-207169309afe\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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attribution, contextual boundaries and reported implications of kafir as a religious classification of persons or groups; the intended registry sense remains provisional because no definition is recorded.", "in_scope": [ "The religious sense of kafir and its context-dependent interpretation", "Attributions of the label to persons or groups by identified speakers or texts", "Criteria asserted by particular theological traditions or authorities", "Distinctions between self-description, external classification and contested accusation", "Reported social or institutional consequences of a particular attribution" ], "out_of_scope": [ "A person's complete religious identity, beliefs or biography", "Islamic theology and jurisprudence as whole disciplines", "Occupation, professional qualifications and employment relations", "Ethnic populations or historical place names associated with similar terminology", "Separate lexical senses, including racial slurs and botanical common names" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The occurrence classifies someone in relation to religious belief or rejection, rather than naming an occupation or competence.", "The classification has an identifiable speaker, text or interpretive framework; a person's religious affiliation alone does not establish that the label applies.", "A general category statement is distinguished from an accusation directed at a named person.", "Translation as unbeliever, disbeliever or another expression requires contextual justification rather than automatic equivalence.", "Religious usage is distinguished from a similar-looking ethnic designation, racial slur or botanical name through language, referent and context." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended lexical sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "religious classification | other lexical sense | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the occurrence belongs to this model." }, { "name": "Original expression", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "attested spelling, script, language and grammatical form", "why_it_matters": "Preserves distinctions that transliteration or translation may erase." }, { "name": "Attribution relation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "speaker or text → classification claim → person or group", "why_it_matters": "Records who applies the label without adopting their judgment." }, { "name": "Claimed classification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "explicitly stated criteria | cited criteria | implicit criteria | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes the grounds of an attribution inspectable." }, { "name": "Interpretive authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "claim → named text, interpreter, school or institution", "why_it_matters": "Limits theological claims to the framework that supports them." }, { "name": "Target specificity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "abstract category | unspecified group | identified group | identified individual", "why_it_matters": "Separates discussion of a category from classification of actual people." }, { "name": "Attribution dispute status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "no response recorded | accepted by target | rejected by target | disputed by others | withdrawn", "why_it_matters": "Preserves disagreement and changes in the claim without adjudicating belief." }, { "name": "Documented consequence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "attribution → reported response or institutional action, with context and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents assumed consequences from being presented as observed outcomes." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate an occurrence of kafir using its language, referent and surrounding passage.", "Record a classification as an attributed claim with a precise textual source.", "Compare how identified interpreters define or apply the category.", "Distinguish general theological discussion from an accusation against a particular person.", "Track disputes, withdrawals and documented consequences of an attribution.", "Produce contextual explanations that preserve the original term and identify uncertain translations." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "religious-sense-and-reference", "name": "Religious sense and reference", "description": "Establish which meaning of kafir an occurrence carries and what it refers to.", "rationale": "An undefined registry label cannot safely merge religious classification with unrelated or historically associated uses.", "layers": [ { "id": "lexical-identification", "name": "Lexical identification", "description": "Identify the attested expression before interpreting its theological meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "sense-established-by-context", "name": "Sense established by context", "description": "Record the original wording, language and surrounding passage as the basis for selecting the religious sense.", "questions": [ { "text": "What spelling, script and language occur in the source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sense-established-by-context-q01" }, { "text": "What contextual evidence identifies a religious classification rather than another lexical sense?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sense-established-by-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "referent-and-translation", "name": "Referent and translation", "description": "Identify the target and preserve the interpretive limits of translation.", "findings": [ { "id": "translation-with-explicit-referent", "name": "Translation with explicit referent", "description": "Record whether the expression denotes an abstract class or particular people, and attribute any translated gloss to its source.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this occurrence discuss a category, a group or a particular individual?", "kind": "definition", "id": "translation-with-explicit-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplies the translation, and what meaning might its chosen gloss obscure?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "translation-with-explicit-referent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "theological-criteria-and-boundaries", "name": "Theological criteria and boundaries", "description": "Represent the criteria and distinctions asserted within a specified interpretive framework.", "rationale": "The model must expose whose definition is being used rather than manufacture a universal test of a person's belief.", "layers": [ { "id": "framework-specific-criteria", "name": "Framework-specific criteria", "description": "Attach definitions and application conditions to identified texts or interpreters.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-definition", "name": "Attributed definition", "description": "Treat a proposed definition of kafir as a claim from an identified framework, with its stated qualifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which text, interpreter or institution supplies the criteria for this use of kafir?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-definition-q01" }, { "text": "What conditions and exceptions does that source explicitly state?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adjacent-religious-categories", "name": "Adjacent religious categories", "description": "Examine asserted relationships to neighbouring classifications without presuming equivalence.", "findings": [ { "id": "non-equivalent-category-mapping", "name": "Non-equivalent category mapping", "description": "Record how the selected source relates kafir to non-Muslim, atheist, apostate, polytheist or other categories, leaving unsupported relationships unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which neighbouring categories does this source distinguish from or associate with kafir?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "non-equivalent-category-mapping-q01" }, { "text": "Does the source assert equivalence, inclusion, overlap or separation, and under what conditions?", "kind": "definition", "id": "non-equivalent-category-mapping-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-and-contestation", "name": "Attribution and contestation", "description": "Represent the act of applying the label and the responses to that act.", "rationale": "A claim about someone's religious standing must remain distinguishable from their identity and from the agent's own assertions.", "layers": [ { "id": "classification-act", "name": "Classification act", "description": "Identify who applies the label, to whom, and in what communicative setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "speaker-target-and-claim", "name": "Speaker, target and claim", "description": "Separate an author's own classification from quotations, hypothetical examples, denials and reports of another speaker's words.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who applies the label to whom, and is the source asserting, quoting, denying or hypothesizing that classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "speaker-target-and-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a general category statement or a specific accusation, and does the source describe it as takfir?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "speaker-target-and-claim-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "responses-and-revisions", "name": "Responses and revisions", "description": "Preserve the positions of the target and other participants as separate claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "contested-attribution-history", "name": "Contested attribution history", "description": "Record acceptance, rejection, qualification or withdrawal with dates and sources; absence of a response does not count as agreement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What response from the target or a relevant interpreter is actually documented?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contested-attribution-history-q01" }, { "text": "What subsequent evidence requires the attribution record to be qualified, corrected or marked withdrawn?", "kind": "action", "id": "contested-attribution-history-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context-consequences-and-agent-use", "name": "Context, consequences and agent use", "description": "Connect a particular use to documented 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"agent-representation", "name": "Agent representation", "description": "Guide explanation, quotation and recordkeeping without independently assigning religious standing.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-and-contextualized-output", "name": "Attributed and contextualized output", "description": "An agent can explain or report the label while preserving speaker attribution, contested status and uncertainty about meaning.", "questions": [ { "text": "Should the agent retain the original term, provide a qualified translation or quote the source to preserve the relevant meaning?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-and-contextualized-output-q01" }, { "text": "How should the output identify the classifier and any dispute so that a reported label is not mistaken for the agent's judgment?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-and-contextualized-output-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": [ "No sense was supplied; the definition assumes the Islamic religious designation rather than a regional slur or historical population label.", "This is a religious classification applied to persons, not an occupation or professional role.", "School-specific interpretations and any contemporary legal consequences require verification; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of kafir this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Arabic spelling", "value_or_pattern": "كافر", "note": "Singular kāfir; a common plural is kuffār (كفار). This is a lexical form, not a registry identifier." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of kafir 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": [ "Interpretation of the Qur'an and other Islamic religious texts.", "Theological discussion of belief, disbelief and religious belonging.", "Historical study of classifications used in Islamic jurisprudence.", "Polemical labeling of individuals or communities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of kafir 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": [ "Treating a context-dependent religious designation as an objective attribute of a person.", "Assuming that every occurrence means simply any non-Muslim.", "Conflating disbelief with apostasy or a particular legal status.", "Using the term to stigmatize people or justify exclusion, sectarian hostility or violence.", "Confusing the Arabic religious term with related words that have distinct regional meanings, including a severe racial slur in southern Africa." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of kafir 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": [ "Arabic and other Muslim-language usages differ in whether the term functions as a scriptural category, theological judgment or everyday insult.", "In southern Africa, the related spelling 'kaffir' is a severe anti-Black racial slur.", "Historical references to 'Kafirs' and 'Kafiristan' concern populations and territory associated with present-day Nuristan and require separate historical interpretation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of kafir 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": "kufr", "difference": "Kufr denotes disbelief or rejection; kafir denotes a person characterized by it." }, { "name": "takfir", "difference": "Takfir is the act of declaring someone a kafir, especially someone who identifies as Muslim." }, { "name": "non-Muslim", "difference": "Non-Muslim describes religious affiliation without necessarily making the theological judgment conveyed by kafir." }, { "name": "murtadd", "difference": "Murtadd denotes an apostate from Islam; kafir does not by itself imply previous adherence to Islam." }, { "name": "mushrik", "difference": "Mushrik denotes someone characterized as associating partners with God; its relationship to kafir depends on the theological context." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of kafir this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.kafir intend the religious classification, a class of persons described by that term, or another lexical sense?", "Which primary texts and interpretive traditions should establish the model's initial definitions and category boundaries?", "How do the selected sources distinguish general category descriptions from applying the label to an identified individual?", "Which translations preserve the intended meaning across the languages and historical periods the registry needs to cover?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring this registry entry to link to that publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 22 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "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 kafir, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to interpret and document uses of kafir as an attributed religious classification without treating the label as an objective property of a person.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Harbi.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 59 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 kafir, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "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": [ "Harbi" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 59 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one kafir from another, and a kafir 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 kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir 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 kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir 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 kafir 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 kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir 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 kafir from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir 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 kafir is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 kafir is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir 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 kafir moves on its own.", "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 kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir 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 kafir 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 kafir between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir 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 kafir, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a kafir 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 kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a kafir.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a kafir and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a kafir, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a kafir, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a kafir, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a kafir is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a kafir and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a kafir sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a kafir, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a kafir, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a kafir is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as kafir.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does kafir require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses kafir, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What kafir actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define kafir, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as kafir, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a kafir 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 kafir and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir 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 kafir is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a kafir, 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 kafir, 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 kafir is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }