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"category", "unit_or_values": "recorded material of working end, handle, coating and joining components; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of wear, care instructions and documented use restrictions." }, { "name": "Working-end and joint condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed bending, cracking, chipping, burrs, corrosion, coating loss or looseness; not inspected allowed", "why_it_matters": "Reveals defects that may affect eating, serving or continued use." }, { "name": "Cleanliness and use history", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "visible residue present | visibly clean | cleaning recorded | unknown; last use and cleaning method where known", "why_it_matters": "Separates visible appearance from evidence supporting readiness for the next use." }, { "name": "Documented use and care limits", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "links to applicable manufacturer instructions or other identified evidence", "why_it_matters": "Grounds decisions about food contact, reuse, washing, heat exposure and maintenance." }, { "name": "Set membership and allocation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "set identifier, piece role, expected quantity, available quantity and assigned place or serving dish", "why_it_matters": "Enables completeness checks and prevents a matching appearance from being mistaken for equivalent function." } ], "affordances": [ "Select a piece for cutting, piercing, scooping, spreading or serving a specified food.", "Assemble a place setting or serving set and identify missing functional pieces.", "Allocate a piece to a user or dish using recorded handling needs and contact history.", "Inspect food-contact surfaces, edges, tines and handle joints before use.", "Choose cleaning, drying and storage actions supported by the piece's materials and care evidence.", "Withdraw a damaged piece or route it for supported repair, replacement or disposal." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "iso-8442-2", "title": "ISO 8442-2, 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Specification for sharpness and edge retention test of cutlery (International Organization for Standardization)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Blade sharpness and edge-retention as recorded quantities, and dulling as a failure mode for knives." }, { "id": "en-14372", "title": "EN 14372, Child use and care articles - Cutlery and feeding utensils - Safety requirements and tests (CEN)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Children's feeding cutlery as a distinct kind; small-part, sharpness and material safety hazards." }, { "id": "ec-1935-2004", "title": "Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food (European Union)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2004/1935/oj", "what_it_supports": "Food-contact framework applying to metal and plastic cutlery placed on the EU market; chemical-transfer hazard.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "eu-2019-904", "title": "Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (European Union)", "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/904/oj", "what_it_supports": "Market restriction of single-use plastic cutlery in the EU and the shift to wooden and other disposable substitutes.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wco-hs-82", "title": "Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, Chapter 82, headings 8211 and 8215 (World Customs Organization)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Customs identifiers that split cutting knives (8211) from spoons, forks, ladles, fish-knives, butter-knives and similar kitchen or tableware (8215)." }, { "id": "wikipedia-cutlery", "title": "Cutlery (Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutlery", "what_it_supports": "English naming split (cutlery vs flatware/silverware), place-setting composition, and the historical Sheffield/trade sense of the word.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cutlery-identity-and-role", "name": "Cutlery identity and role", "description": "Establishes what the implement is and which eating or serving role it owns.", "rationale": "Similar forms can belong to table service, food preparation or decoration, and those distinctions change permissible use.", "layers": [ { "id": "implement-classification", "name": "Implement classification", "description": "Classifies the piece through its working end and intended context.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-end-and-intended-use", "name": "Working end and intended use", "description": "Record the blade, tines, bowl or combined form and the evidence for its eating or serving role.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which working-end features identify this piece as a knife, fork, spoon, spreader or combined implement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "working-end-and-intended-use-q01" }, { "text": "What marking, instruction or observed context supports its intended role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "working-end-and-intended-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-boundaries", "name": "Classification boundaries", "description": "Handles pieces whose relationship to cutlery is ambiguous.", "findings": [ { "id": "table-service-versus-neighbouring-tools", "name": "Table service versus neighbouring tools", "description": "Record whether a disputed piece belongs here or in a neighbouring utensil model, including unresolved cases.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this piece primarily intended for eating, table service, ingredient preparation or display?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "table-service-versus-neighbouring-tools-q01" }, { "text": "Which registry convention determines whether this specialist utensil belongs to cutlery?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "table-service-versus-neighbouring-tools-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "food-handling-and-user-fit", "name": "Food handling and user fit", "description": "Connects cutlery geometry and handling 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mouth interaction", "description": "Addresses hand control and, for eating implements, interaction with the mouth.", "findings": [ { "id": "handling-fit", "name": "Handling fit", "description": "Record handle form, size, mass and relevant user requirements without deriving clinical conclusions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the piece's overall length, mass, handle dimensions and any handle-to-working-end angle?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "handling-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Does the intended user need a particular grip, handedness, reach or mouthful size that this piece has been assessed to support?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "food-contact-condition-and-care", "name": "Food-contact condition and care", "description": "Records construction, damage, contamination observations and evidence governing cleaning and continued use.", "rationale": "Cutlery repeatedly contacts food and may contact the mouth, so working-surface condition and care 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polymers and coatings used in plastic and coated cutlery", "UK Hallmarking Act 1973 and assay-office marks (UK) - sterling and other precious-metal cutlery, not stainless", "EN 1811 (CEN) - nickel release from articles intended for prolonged skin contact, relevant to handles" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of cutlery this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Matched place settings in homes and restaurants: typically a table knife, dinner fork and spoon per cover, with extra pieces added for formal courses", "Boxed retail sets sold by piece count (commonly 16- and 24-piece stainless sets for four or six covers)", "Commercial food service: warewashed stainless in 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"typical_range": "125-140", "unit": "mm" }, { "quantity": "Mass of a stainless dinner fork", "typical_range": "40-80", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "Pieces in a boxed household set", "typical_range": "16-48", "unit": "count" }, { "quantity": "Nominal chromium in 18/10 or 18/0 stainless", "typical_range": "17-19", "unit": "% mass" }, { "quantity": "Nominal nickel in 18/10 stainless (AISI 304 family)", "typical_range": "8-10.5", "unit": "% mass" }, { "quantity": "Silver coating thickness on plated table cutlery (class-dependent)", "typical_range": "5-40", "unit": "µm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of cutlery this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Pitting and staining of lower-chromium (13/0, some 18/0) stainless in dishwashers, chlorides and acidic foods", "Nickel contact allergy from 18/8-18/10 stainless, especially handles in prolonged skin contact", "Cuts, punctures and (in custodial settings) weaponisation of knives and forks", "Choking, palatal injury and sharp broken edges on children's and cheap disposable pieces", "Silver tarnish and wear-through of plating to a base metal that then corrodes or marks food", "Handle-to-blade failure at rivets, soldered joints or welded bolsters", "Heat deformation, breakage and chemical transfer from poor-quality plastic ware in hot or fatty foods", "Splintering of wooden disposable substitutes introduced after plastic-cutlery bans" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of cutlery this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "In British and much Commonwealth usage, cutlery names the knife-fork-spoon set; in US retail and trade, cutlery often means knives, while the set is flatware or silverware", "Formal British place settings still distinguish fish knives/forks and other course-specific pieces more often than typical North American settings", "Continental European table practice keeps the fork in the left hand; US practice commonly switches the fork to the right after cutting", "East Asian everyday eating uses chopsticks; Western cutlery appears mainly in restaurants serving Western-style food", "South Asian everyday practice historically centres on the right hand and the spoon; the fork is a later, still uneven, addition", "German Besteck, French couverts and Italian posate are the ordinary names for the set; couverts also means the place setting as a whole", "EU and UK restrictions on single-use plastic cutlery are stricter than in many other markets, so wooden and fibre disposables are more visible there" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of cutlery this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Kitchen / chef's knives (food-preparation cutlery)", "difference": "Used to prepare food at a board or in a kitchen, not laid as a matched table place setting; ISO 8442-1 vs 8442-2 is the standards split, HS 8211 vs 8215 the customs split when the article is a knife versus spoon/fork tableware." }, { "name": "Table holloware", "difference": "Vessels and dishes (teapots, jugs, bowls, entrée dishes) rather than handheld implements; ISO 8442 covers both classes in one series but as separate parts and test regimes." }, { "name": "Ceramic tableware (crockery / chinaware)", "difference": "Plates, bowls and cups that hold food; cutlery is the implement that acts on food already served." }, { "name": "Chopsticks", "difference": "A paired gripping tool without a blade, tines or bowl; classified and named separately from Western cutlery in trade and in everyday language." }, { "name": "Cookware", "difference": "Heated vessels and pans used to cook, not to eat with; not laid at the cover." }, { "name": "Kitchen serving tools (tongs, spatulas, turners)", "difference": "Process tools for cooking and plating, not members of a dining canteen or place setting." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of cutlery this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] 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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 cutlery, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise cutlery, assess its condition and suitability for a meal or service task, and decide how it may be used, cleaned, stored or withdrawn.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: service cutlery, shovel cake, silverware salad, chopstick accessory, flatware set, Combination eating utensils, chork, Maya (cutlery), Sujeo.", "9 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a cutlery, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "service cutlery", "shovel cake", "silverware salad", "chopstick accessory", "flatware set", "Combination eating utensils", "chork", "Maya (cutlery)", "Sujeo" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 9 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 cutlery from another, and a cutlery 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery 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.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a cutlery, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a cutlery, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a cutlery is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a cutlery is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a cutlery, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a cutlery, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a cutlery is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a cutlery is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a cutlery, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a cutlery, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a cutlery 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 cutlery is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "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 cutlery is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery 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 cutlery between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cutlery 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery 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 cutlery 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery 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 cutlery need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about cutlery is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about cutlery hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery 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 cutlery is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cutlery, 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 cutlery, 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 cutlery is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }