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{ "id": "facts", "name": "Facts", "description": "Health facts and myths.", "findings": [ { "id": "facts-finding", "name": "Facts", "description": "Facts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do medical sources say about health effects, and which myths have been refuted, with attribution?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "concerns", "name": "Concerns", "description": "Concerns.", "findings": [ { "id": "concerns-finding", "name": "Concerns", "description": "Concerns.", "questions": [ { "text": "When might compulsive behaviour or distress warrant professional help?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user asking about their own health, which needs a clinician?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "society", "name": "Society", "description": "Attitudes.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "culture", "name": "Culture", "description": "Cultural and religious views.", "findings": [ { "id": "culture-finding", "name": "Culture", "description": "Culture.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do cultures and religions view the topic, with positions attributed and presented neutrally?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation respectful of all views?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did medical and moral attitudes change from the eighteenth century to today, as historians describe?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Animals and education.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "animals", "name": "Animals", "description": "In animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "animals-finding", "name": "Animals", "description": "Animals.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do biologists 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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. 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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": [ "anal masturbation", "ball-cupping", "humping", "mutual masturbation", "solo masturbation", "female masturbation", "male masturbation", "vacuum cleaner sex", "solo sex", "onanism", "child masturbation", "masturbation and Islam" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 137 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 15 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 masturbation from another, and a masturbation from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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}, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a masturbation 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 masturbation 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 masturbation, 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 masturbation, by which method, 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"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 masturbation 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 masturbation 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 masturbation between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a masturbation, 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 masturbation, 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 masturbation 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 masturbation, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": 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"inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a masturbation, 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 masturbation 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 masturbation is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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