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"Intentions, plans and commitments formed after deliberation", "Executed actions and their full consequences" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An impulse includes a pull toward doing something; a sensation or emotion alone does not establish that pull.", "A person can report an impulse while rejecting its proposed action; an impulse therefore does not establish intention, endorsement or consent.", "An impulse is an identifiable episode or fluctuation of urge; a stable preference alone does not establish an impulse episode.", "An action can occur without a reported impulse, and an impulse can pass without action; behaviour alone does not establish the preceding experience.", "If the referent is characterised by force over time or signal propagation rather than experienced action pressure, it falls outside this provisional interpretation." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Urged action", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Action or action class toward which the urge is directed; 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or inferred connection; none reported; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Allows follow-through to be recorded without assuming the impulse caused the action." } ], "affordances": [ "Record an impulse report while marking any inferred elements explicitly", "Clarify the urged action and whether the person endorses acting on it", "Track changes in intensity, urgency and perceived ability to refrain", "Offer a pause or an alternative response consistent with the person's expressed preferences", "Link an impulse to possible triggers and subsequent actions without asserting unverified causation", "Reassess whether the urge remains present after a response or change of context" ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "iso-80000-4", "title": "ISO 80000-4:2019 Quantities and units - Part 4: Mechanics", "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/64977.html", "what_it_supports": "SI quantity impulse J = ∫ F dt, unit newton-second, as the mechanical definition used in metrology", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": 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"An agent must distinguish an impulse from a feeling, an intention and an observer's explanation of behaviour.", "layers": [ { "id": "experienced-action-pull", "name": "Experienced action pull", "description": "Captures what the person feels drawn to do without converting that pull into a commitment.", "findings": [ { "id": "urged-response", "name": "Urged response", "description": "Record the proposed movement, expression, approach or avoidance, retaining uncertainty when the urge has no clear target.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the person feel an urge to do, stop doing or move away from?", "kind": "definition", "id": "urged-response-q01" }, { "text": "Is an action pull actually reported, or only a sensation, emotion or thought?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "urged-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "report-and-attribution", "name": "Report and attribution", "description": "Separates access to the person's experience from external interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "impulse-evidence", "name": "Impulse evidence", "description": "Record who identified the impulse, when they identified it and which elements remain inferred.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the impulse reported by the person during the episode, recalled later or attributed by an observer?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "impulse-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports calling this an impulse rather than inferring one solely from an abrupt action?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "impulse-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "onset-and-course", "name": "Onset and course", "description": "Represents when an urge appears, how it changes and whether later urges belong to the same episode.", "rationale": "The opportunity to respond depends on the urge's course, while repeated urges should not automatically be treated as one continuous state.", "layers": [ { "id": "onset-context", "name": "Onset context", "description": "Places the beginning of the urge relative to events that may have 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"measurement", "id": "episode-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "If the urge returned, was there a reported interval without it that supports recording a new episode?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "episode-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pressure-and-deliberation", "name": "Pressure and deliberation", "description": "Distinguishes how strongly and urgently an impulse is felt from whether acting on it is endorsed.", "rationale": "A strong urge can coexist with a decision to refrain, so intensity alone cannot determine intention or permissible action.", "layers": [ { "id": "strength-and-immediacy", "name": "Strength and immediacy", "description": "Records felt intensity and time pressure as separate aspects of the episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "felt-action-pressure", "name": "Felt action pressure", "description": "Capture the person's descriptions or explicitly anchored ratings without imposing an unsupported universal scale.", "questions": [ { "text": "How strong is the urge on the 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response, if any, has the person actually chosen or authorised?", "kind": "action", "id": "urge-choice-separation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-and-resolution", "name": "Response and resolution", "description": "Records how the impulse is handled and what happens to both the urge and the associated behaviour.", "rationale": "Acting, refraining and experiencing relief are distinct outcomes; an agent needs to preserve those distinctions when assessing the episode.", "layers": [ { "id": "response-options", "name": "Response options", "description": "Connects possible responses to the particular urged action and the person's expressed choices.", "findings": [ { "id": "handling-the-urge", "name": "Handling the urge", "description": "Record available and selected responses such as waiting, redirecting attention, changing context or pursuing an endorsed action.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which feasible responses could the person choose before carrying out the urged action?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-the-urge-q01" }, { "text": "Which response has the person selected, and what assistance have they requested?", "kind": "action", "id": "handling-the-urge-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "urge-and-action-outcomes", "name": "Urge and action outcomes", "description": "Tracks whether the urge remains and whether an associated action occurred.", "findings": [ { "id": "resolution-evidence", "name": "Resolution evidence", "description": "Record the latest reported urge state separately from action completion and avoid assuming that either establishes the other.", "questions": [ { "text": "After the response or passage of time, is the urge still present, reduced, stronger or reportedly absent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "resolution-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Was the urged action performed, partly performed or not performed, and what supports linking it to this impulse?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "resolution-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "Is there enough evidence to close this episode, or does its current state remain unknown?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "resolution-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "linear mechanical impulse", "angular impulse", "specific impulse (propulsion)", "electrical impulse (voltage/current pulse)", "nerve impulse (action potential)", "pressure impulse (blast/overpressure)", "hydraulic/fluid impulse", "digital/logical impulse (clock or trigger pulse)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of impulse this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q216523", "note": "physical quantity: impulse (mechanics)" }, { "scheme": "ISO 80000-4 quantity", "value_or_pattern": "J (impulse); p (momentum, related)", "note": "quantity symbol J; SI unit N·s" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of impulse this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ISO 80000-4:2019 Quantities and units - Part 4: Mechanics (ISO)", "ISO 2041:2018 Mechanical vibration, shock and condition monitoring - Vocabulary (ISO)", "IEC 60050 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary, impulse/pulse entries (IEC)", "SI Brochure, 9th edition - derived units (BIPM)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of impulse 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": [ "Impact and crash testing: recorded force-time traces whose integral is the impulse 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"N·s" }, { "quantity": "impulse duration", "typical_range": "microseconds (electrical/pyrotechnic) to hundreds of milliseconds (crash, gait)", "unit": "s" }, { "quantity": "specific impulse", "typical_range": "100-450 (chemical rockets); higher for electric propulsion when quoted as seconds", "unit": "s (or N·s/kg)" }, { "quantity": "peak force during impulse", "typical_range": "newtons to meganewtons by application", "unit": "N" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of impulse 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": [ "Treating peak force as a substitute for impulse, missing that a long weak pulse can equal a short strong one", "Unspecified waveform: two pulses with the same integral can produce different damage (rate-sensitive materials, human injury)", "Sensor clipping or insufficient bandwidth under-integrates a short pulse", "Confusing impulse (∫F dt) with impulse response of a system or with a digital pulse", "Blast/pressure impulse underestimated when only peak overpressure is recorded" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of impulse 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": [ "Specific impulse quoted in seconds (common in US/aerospace) versus effective exhaust velocity in m/s (SI-preferring practice)", "Electrical 'impulse voltage' test waves standardized as 1.2/50 µs lightning and 250/2500 µs switching (IEC) with national adoptions", "Sports and clinical gait literature often report 'impulse' as force-time integral without stating whether the vertical, resultant, or a phase-windowed component is meant" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of impulse 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": "momentum", "difference": "Impulse equals the change in momentum of a system; momentum is a state, impulse is the process that changes it" }, { "name": "impulse response", "difference": "The output of a linear system to a Dirac delta; not the mechanical quantity J = ∫F dt" }, { "name": "pulse / shock", "difference": "Shock or pulse names the event or waveform; impulse is the integral (or a standardized test wave in electrical practice)" }, { "name": "impact energy / work", "difference": "Energy is force integrated over distance (or ∫F·v dt); impulse is force integrated over time" }, { "name": "specific impulse vs thrust", "difference": "Thrust is force; specific impulse is impulse delivered per unit propellant, i.e. a measure of propellant economy" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of impulse this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does XCT / XCT.QLT intend impulse to mean an experienced urge toward action, a physical quantity, a signal event or another concept?", "Which neighbouring registry entries own desire, intention, compulsion, reflex and motivation, and where should their boundaries with impulse be drawn?", "What evidence is sufficient to identify an impulse when contemporaneous self-report is unavailable?", "Which intensity, urgency and perceived-control measures are suitable for the intended setting, and what comparisons do they support?", "What operational rule should distinguish a fluctuating impulse from separate recurrent episodes without imposing an arbitrary duration threshold?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 impulse, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Model an impulse as a momentary urge toward action so an AI agent can recognise it, assess its urgency and controllability, and identify appropriate responses without treating the urge as a decision.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 64 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 impulse, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "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. 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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 impulse, 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 impulse, 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 impulse 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 impulse, 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 impulse, 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 impulse 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 impulse 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 impulse, 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 impulse, 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 impulse 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 impulse from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a impulse, 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 impulse, 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 impulse 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 impulse 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 impulse between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a impulse, 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 impulse, 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 impulse 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 impulse, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a impulse 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 impulse, 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 impulse, 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 impulse 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 impulse 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 impulse 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 impulse 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 impulse 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 impulse?", "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 impulse?", "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 impulse 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 impulse and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a impulse, 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 impulse, 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 impulse 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 impulse is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a impulse, 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 impulse, 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 impulse is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }