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Candidate of Sciences

vr.tr.candidate-of-sciences · ACT.ACT
Thing Registry Activities and processes

Generated draft, first pass

This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.

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.

Generator: vr.draft.v3

Purpose and description

Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Candidate of Sciences, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.

An activity registered under ACT.ACT. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.

It can be observed and measured.

Distinguishing features

Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Candidate of Biology Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Candidate in History of Art, candidate of philology, PhD in Philosophical Sciences, candidate in military science, Candidate of Geography Sciences, candidate of geologico-mineralogical sciences, candidate of cultural studies.

25 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.

Described in 34 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.

Physical character

Made of: something that happens over time.

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.

How it is recognised

Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about.

Related models

covers - 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.

Candidate of Biology SciencesCandidate of Economic Sciencescandidate of Sciences in Physics and MathematicsCandidate of Technical SciencesCandidate of Historical SciencesCandidate in History of Artcandidate of philologyPhD in Philosophical Sciencescandidate in military scienceCandidate of Geography Sciencescandidate of geologico-mineralogical sciencescandidate of cultural studies

Described in 34 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 25 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.

Also called

Candidate of Biology SciencesCandidate of Economic Sciencescandidate of Sciences in Physics and MathematicsCandidate of Technical SciencesCandidate of Historical SciencesCandidate in History of Artcandidate of philologyPhD in Philosophical Sciencescandidate in military scienceCandidate of Geography Sciencescandidate of geologico-mineralogical sciencescandidate of cultural studiesCandidate of Sciences in MedicinePhD in Psychologycandidate of agricultural sciencesCandidate of Sociological sciencescandidate in architecturecandidate of pharmacy sciencescandidate of chemical sciencePhD in LawCandidate of Naval SciencesRussian and Ukrainian PhD in Political Sciencecandidate of literary studiesholder of an old-style PhD in linguisticsCandidate of Mathematics

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 6 bundles · 12 layers · 14 findings · 38 questions.

Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one Candidate of Sciences from another, and a Candidate of Sciences from things that resemble it.

Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.

Names and identifiers

The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.

Preferred name, aliases and local names

Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.

  1. What identifies and describes the name of a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the name of a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action

Stable identifiers and external keys

Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.

  1. What identifies and describes an identifier for a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action

Classification and granularity

Where a Candidate of Sciences sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.

Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds

The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.

  1. What identifies and describes the kind of a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action

Distinguishing features

What separates a Candidate of Sciences from the things most often confused with it.

  1. What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a Candidate of Sciences passes through and the events that move it between them.

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.

Lifecycle stages

From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.

Stages and transitions

The stages worth naming and what moves a Candidate of Sciences between them.

  1. What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action

Observations and current status

What is observed about a Candidate of Sciences, how often and by whom.

Observation record

How an observation of a Candidate of Sciences is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.

  1. What identifies and describes an observation of a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action
Process, inputs and outcome How a Candidate of Sciences proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.

An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.

Steps and sequence

The steps of a Candidate of Sciences, their order and what may run in parallel.

Steps, preconditions and completion

What has to be true before each step of a Candidate of Sciences and what marks it done.

  1. What identifies and describes a step of a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about a step of a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once a step of a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action

Inputs, resources and results

What a Candidate of Sciences consumes and what it produces.

Inputs, outputs and side effects

The resources a Candidate of Sciences takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.

  1. What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action
Definitions and who holds them What Candidate of Sciences is taken to mean, and by whom.

When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.

Competing definitions

The main readings and the traditions behind them.

Definitions and their holders

Each definition with the school or body that holds it.

  1. Which definitions of Candidate of Sciences are in use, and which tradition or body holds each? definition
  2. What turns on the difference between them in practice? boundary

Operationalisation

How it is measured or applied when it has to be.

Measures and proxies

Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.

  1. How is Candidate of Sciences operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument? measurement
  2. What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter? boundary
Instances, use and consequence What counts as an instance of Candidate of Sciences and what follows from calling something that.

Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.

What counts as an instance

Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.

Tests for an instance

What would settle whether something falls under it.

  1. What would settle whether something is an instance of Candidate of Sciences? boundary
  2. Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds? definition

Consequence of application

Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.

What the label licenses

What an agent may do once something is classified this way.

  1. What follows practically once something is treated as Candidate of Sciences? action
  2. What must an agent not infer from the label alone? action
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a Candidate of Sciences came from and when it held.

A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.

Source and authority

Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.

Claim provenance and confidence

The authority behind each claim about a Candidate of Sciences and how confident it is.

  1. What identifies and describes a claim about a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action

Time, versions and supersession

When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.

Validity period and supersession

How an old claim about a Candidate of Sciences is retired without being erased.

  1. What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Candidate of Sciences, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
  2. Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Candidate of Sciences, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
  3. What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Candidate of Sciences is known, and what must it refuse? action

What the second pass must settle

  • 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 Candidate of Sciences, and on what evidence are they told apart?
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