{ "model": { "rank": 4345, "code": "thing-q6498477", "model_id": "vr.tr.lust", "name": "lust", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and describe lust as an attributed or experienced form of sexual desire, assess its context and uncertainty, and identify appropriate responses without treating desire as consent or conduct.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q6498477/", "tier": 2, "score": 76, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "lustfulness in elephants", "Kaam" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 76, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q6498477", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6498477", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:00:55Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.8, "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: 01a087c1-66b3-7c60-923d-b8840c3c1de3\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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directed, or objectifying.", "scope_statement": "This model owns lust in its sexual-desire sense, including how people experience, attribute, interpret and respond to it; it records competing meanings rather than assuming that lust is inherently immoral, pathological or separate from love.", "in_scope": [ "Episodes and recurring patterns described as intense sexual wanting", "The subject, object and specificity of desire, where voluntarily disclosed", "Distinctions between desire, bodily arousal, attraction, attachment and intended action", "Psychological, everyday, ethical and religious interpretations of lust", "The relationship between experienced desire, personal boundaries and chosen responses" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Sexual acts and their physical mechanics", "Consent as an independently established interpersonal agreement", "Sexual orientation and gender identity as enduring identity constructs", "Romantic relationships and attachment as complete relational systems", "Clinical diagnoses and treatment protocols", "Metaphorical appetites such as lust for power or wealth" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish whether the description concerns sexual wanting; intensity of a nonsexual appetite alone does not place it in this model.", "Record bodily arousal separately: a physiological response alone does not establish experienced lust.", "Identify wanting separately from judging someone attractive; an attractiveness assessment alone does not establish desire.", "Test whether affection, attachment or commitment is also present rather than defining lust by their absence.", "Separate experiencing desire from intending, consenting to or performing an act; none can be inferred solely from the others." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Applied meaning", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Everyday sexual wanting | psychological construct | ethical or religious category | disputed | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "The same label can describe an experience or express a judgement about it." }, { "name": "Attribution basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Voluntary self-report | quoted account | third-party interpretation | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents another person's interpretation from becoming an asserted private mental state." }, { "name": "Experienced intensity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Optional self-rating with the scale, anchors and time window recorded; otherwise unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison within an account without inventing a universal threshold for lust." }, { "name": "Temporal pattern", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Momentary | sustained | recurrent | variable | unknown, with reported duration", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an episode from a claimed recurring disposition." }, { "name": "Desire directedness", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Toward a reported person, imagined scenario or sexual experience | diffuse | undisclosed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Clarifies what is wanted without requiring identifying details about another person." }, { "name": "Relationship to arousal and attachment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Each separately reported as present | absent | uncertain | undisclosed", "why_it_matters": "Preserves distinctions between sexual wanting, bodily response and relational feelings." }, { "name": "Experienced fit with preferences and values", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Welcome | unwanted | mixed | uncertain | undisclosed", "why_it_matters": "Guides whether reflection, accommodation or help managing the experience is wanted." }, { "name": "Reported impact", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "No reported disruption | attention disruption | relationship tension | distress | other specified impact | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates intensity from consequences and avoids diagnosing from the label alone." } ], "affordances": [ "Clarify which meaning of lust a speaker intends and preserve alternative interpretations.", "Describe voluntarily reported desire while marking uncertainty and attribution.", "Compare episodes using explicitly defined time windows and self-rating scales.", "Distinguish sexual wanting from arousal, attachment, consent and intended conduct.", "Help a person identify responses consistent with their preferences and others' boundaries.", "Identify unresolved distress or disruption that warrants further assessment without assigning a diagnosis." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meanings-of-lust", "name": "Meanings of lust", "description": "The sexual-desire sense and the interpretive frameworks that give the label different implications.", "rationale": "An agent must know whether lust names an experience, an evaluative category or both.", "layers": [ { "id": "sexual-sense", "name": "Sexual sense", "description": "Establishes the intended referent and the proposed boundary with ordinary sexual desire.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-definition", "name": "Working definition", "description": "Record the speaker's meaning and any proposed intensity or object-focus criterion without presenting that criterion as universal.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the speaker mean by lust in this account?", "kind": "definition", "id": "working-definition-q01" }, { "text": "What, if anything, distinguishes it here from sexual desire generally?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "working-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evaluative-frameworks", "name": "Evaluative frameworks", "description": "Locates moral, religious and psychological interpretations in their stated sources.", "findings": [ { "id": "framework-and-disagreement", "name": "Framework and disagreement", "description": "Attribute judgements about lust to the person, tradition or account making them, and retain disagreements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose framework supplies this definition or judgement of lust?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "framework-and-disagreement-q01" }, { "text": "Does that framework locate the concern in desire itself, cultivated attention, objectification or conduct?", "kind": "definition", "id": "framework-and-disagreement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "experienced-sexual-wanting", "name": "Experienced sexual wanting", "description": "The reported content, intensity and temporal shape of desire.", "rationale": "Recognition requires a description of the experience rather than reliance on the label alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-directedness", "name": "Content and directedness", "description": "Describes what is wanted at the least intrusive level necessary.", "findings": [ { "id": "object-of-wanting", "name": "Object of wanting", "description": "Distinguish person-directed desire, imagined sexual situations and diffuse wanting without assuming an intended encounter.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the reported wanting directed toward a person, a scenario, an experience or no specific object?", "kind": "definition", "id": "object-of-wanting-q01" }, { "text": "Which details are necessary to understand the desire, and which can remain undisclosed?", "kind": "action", "id": "object-of-wanting-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intensity-and-course", "name": "Intensity and course", "description": "Tracks the strength and recurrence of the experience within a defined period.", "findings": [ { "id": "episode-profile", "name": "Episode profile", "description": "Use the person's account and any explicitly defined measure to distinguish a brief episode from sustained or recurrent wanting.", "questions": [ { "text": "How strong is the desire according to the person, using what scale and time window?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "episode-profile-q01" }, { "text": "How long does it last, how often does it recur, and what changes accompany its rise or decline?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "episode-profile-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-neighbouring-states", "name": "Evidence and neighbouring states", "description": "The basis for attributing lust and its relationship to other experiences.", "rationale": "An agent must avoid reading private desire directly from appearance, bodily response or relational status.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution-quality", "name": "Attribution quality", "description": "Separates first-person descriptions from interpretations made by observers.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-basis", "name": "Claim basis", "description": "Record who attributes lust, what they rely on and whether the person concerned accepts the description.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is lust self-reported, described in a source account or inferred by someone else?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What uncertainty remains if the attribution relies on behaviour, appearance or physiological response?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "claim-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "desire-arousal-and-love", "name": "Desire, arousal and 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"wanting-and-intending", "name": "Wanting and intending", "description": "Separates an internal experience from a chosen course of action.", "findings": [ { "id": "intention-status", "name": "Intention status", "description": "Distinguish fantasy, desire, intention and conduct without assuming progression between them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this account describe wanting, fantasy, an intention or an action already taken?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intention-status-q01" }, { "text": "What response, if any, does the person actually want to choose?", "kind": "action", "id": "intention-status-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reciprocity-and-consent", "name": "Reciprocity and consent", "description": "Connects proposed interpersonal actions to independently established boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "no-permission-from-desire", "name": "No permission from desire", "description": "Keep attributed attraction and reciprocal desire distinct from consent to a specific interaction.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is known about the other person's wishes through their communication rather than inferred attraction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "no-permission-from-desire-q01" }, { "text": "What boundaries and consent requirements must be established independently before the proposed interaction?", "kind": "action", "id": "no-permission-from-desire-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "personal-fit-and-response", "name": "Personal fit and response", "description": "Whether the experience is welcome, disruptive or in tension with the person's commitments, and what support they want.", "rationale": "Useful responses depend on reported impact and preferences, not on intensity or moral labelling alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "welcome-and-conflict", "name": "Welcome and conflict", "description": "Describes the person's relationship to the desire and to judgements about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-of-discomfort", "name": "Source of discomfort", "description": "Distinguish discomfort with the experience, conflict with commitments, consequences of conduct and distress about its interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the desire welcome, unwanted or mixed from the person's perspective?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "source-of-discomfort-q01" }, { "text": "If there is discomfort, does the person connect it to the desire, its meaning, a commitment or something they have done?", "kind": "definition", "id": "source-of-discomfort-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "impact-and-chosen-support", "name": "Impact and chosen support", "description": "Relates reported disruption to the person's preferred next step.", "findings": [ { "id": "proportionate-response", "name": "Proportionate response", "description": "Record effects on attention, relationships and daily activities, and identify requested support without treating lust itself as a diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What concrete disruption or distress is reported, over what period, and with what uncertainty about its cause?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "proportionate-response-q01" }, { "text": "Does the person want reflection, help managing attention, boundary planning or professional assessment of persistent difficulties?", "kind": "action", "id": "proportionate-response-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 is recorded: this account prioritizes sexual desire while acknowledging figurative and morally evaluative uses.", "The listed kinds are ordinary distinctions, not a standardized taxonomy; research often operationalizes sexual desire rather than lust itself.", "This is recall-based; tradition-specific definitions and measurement instruments require verification before publication." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of lust 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": [ "Sexual lust", "Figurative lust for power, wealth, or other desired objects" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of lust 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": [ "Ordinary language for intense sexual wanting, often distinguished from affection or commitment.", "Religious and ethical discussions about the objects, limits, and expression of desire.", "Psychological research on sexual desire, attraction, and their relationships to attachment.", "Literary and artistic representations of temptation, motivation, and conflict." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of lust 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 or frequency of sexual desire", "typical_range": "Instrument-dependent; no universal range or threshold defines lust", "unit": "Questionnaire or rating-scale score" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of lust 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 morally evaluative definition as a universally accepted psychological definition.", "Conflating desire with physiological arousal, intention, or action.", "Inferring consent from another person's apparent desire or arousal.", "Treating intense desire alone as evidence of a disorder.", "Using the term to shame people or reinforce gender stereotypes." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of lust 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": [ "Many Christian traditions classify lust among the seven deadly sins, while ordinary secular usage can be descriptive rather than condemnatory.", "Terms translated as lust across languages and religious traditions do not necessarily share the same scope or moral meaning." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of lust 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": "Sexual desire", "difference": "Sexual 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"evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of lust this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which reference accounts distinguish lust from sexual desire, and do they use intensity, objectification, moral evaluation or another criterion?", "Which research measures explicitly operationalise lust, and how well do they separate it from arousal, attraction and general sexual desire?", "How do particular cultural and religious traditions distinguish involuntary desire from deliberately cultivated desire and conduct?", "When people describe lust as unwanted, what evidence distinguishes discomfort about desire from disruption associated with its persistence or their actions?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this sexual-desire concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it rather than receive a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { 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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 lust, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise and describe lust as an attributed or experienced form of sexual desire, assess its context and uncertainty, and identify appropriate responses without treating desire as consent or conduct.", "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: lustfulness in elephants, Kaam.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 76 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 lust, 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": [ "lustfulness in elephants", "Kaam" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 76 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 lust from another, and a lust 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 lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 lust 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 lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 lust from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 lust 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 lust between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 lust, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a lust 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 lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 lust 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 lust, 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 lust and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 lust consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a lust 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 lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 lust 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 lust 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 lust 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 lust 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 lust?", "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 lust?", "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 lust 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 lust and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 lust is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a lust, 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 lust, 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 lust 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 } } } }