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    "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
    "publishableCanonical": false,
    "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T22:05:30Z",
    "providers": [
      "Claude"
    ],
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    "pass": 2,
    "wave": 2,
    "engine": "claude",
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      "engine": "claude",
      "producedAt": "2026-10-05T23:50:00Z",
      "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T20:46:24+00:00",
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        "ethics",
        "owners"
      ]
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        "sense: WordNet gloss",
        "2 live sources",
        "review by codex: pass"
      ]
    }
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    "family": "Thing Registry",
    "domain": [
      "XCT.QTY"
    ],
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    "purpose": "Let an agent interpret limits as bounds in rules, capacities and nature, help find and apply applicable limits, explain thresholds and cutoffs, and separate the mathematical sense.",
    "definition": "The greatest or least amount, extent or degree of something that is possible, allowed or reached, such as speed limits, spending limits, upper and lower limits, cutoffs, thresholds and extremes; in this sense a limit is a bound set by rule, capacity or nature, distinct from the mathematical limit of a sequence or function.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Bounds on amounts and extents.",
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      "find applicable limits",
      "explain thresholds and cutoffs",
      "apply limits in decisions",
      "separate other senses"
    ],
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      "Bound",
      "Rule, capacity or nature",
      "Upper or lower",
      "Context-specific"
    ],
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      "Greatest or least possible or allowed",
      "Upper or lower bound",
      "A mathematical limit is a value approached"
    ],
    "physical_properties": [],
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      "legal and regulatory limits",
      "capacity and safety limits",
      "thresholds and cutoffs",
      "physical and natural limits",
      "personal limits and boundaries"
    ],
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      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "quantity",
        "why": "category"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "capacity",
        "why": "capacity limits"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "sum",
        "why": "contrast with mathematical limits"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "overage",
        "why": "exceeding limits"
      }
    ],
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    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Regulations setting limits in each domain",
      "Safety standards specifying rated limits"
    ],
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      "Exceeding safe limits",
      "Confusing senses of limit",
      "Outdated limit values"
    ],
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    "out_of_scope": [],
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        "Respect limits it is given, such as speed, spending or rate limits.",
        "Warn people before a limit is reached and say what happens then."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Exceed a legal or safety limit, such as a speed or load limit.",
        "Hide or bypass a limit set by the person or system it serves.",
        "Raise its own limits without authorization.",
        "Present an arbitrary internal limit as a legal requirement."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Granting an exception to a safety, credit or spending limit."
      ]
    },
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        "Limits protect people from harm and overuse, but unfair limits can exclude.",
        "Gaming limits shifts risk onto others."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "People protected by the limit",
        "People held back by it",
        "Operators who set it"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "Whoever sets each limit, such as a regulator, an operator or the person.",
      "master_systems": []
    }
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      "id": "oewn",
      "title": "Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13780436-n",
      "url": "https://en-word.net/id/oewn-13780436-n",
      "what_it_supports": "sense and gloss of the concept",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    },
    {
      "id": "wiktionary-en",
      "title": "Wiktionary: limit",
      "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/limit",
      "what_it_supports": "word senses and usage",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    }
  ],
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      {
        "id": "find",
        "name": "Find",
        "description": "Which limit applies.",
        "rationale": "Lookup.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "lookup",
            "name": "Lookup",
            "description": "Finding a limit.",
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              {
                "id": "lookup-finding",
                "name": "Lookup",
                "description": "Lookup.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What is the applicable limit for this activity, substance or system here, according to the governing rule or standard?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is it an upper limit, lower limit or both?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "senses",
            "name": "Senses",
            "description": "Which sense.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "senses-finding",
                "name": "Senses",
                "description": "Senses.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is a bound set by rule or capacity meant, or the mathematical limit of a sequence or function?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "apply",
        "name": "Apply",
        "description": "Using limits.",
        "rationale": "Practice.",
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          {
            "id": "comply",
            "name": "Comply",
            "description": "Staying within limits.",
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              {
                "id": "comply-finding",
                "name": "Comply",
                "description": "Compliance.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How can compliance with this limit be monitored, and what happens when it is exceeded?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which margins are prudent?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "thresholds",
            "name": "Thresholds",
            "description": "Thresholds and cutoffs.",
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              {
                "id": "thresholds-finding",
                "name": "Thresholds",
                "description": "Thresholds.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How are thresholds and cutoffs chosen, and what trade-offs do they involve?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How should a cutoff be set for this decision?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "nature",
        "name": "Nature",
        "description": "Natural and physical limits.",
        "rationale": "Science.",
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          {
            "id": "physical",
            "name": "Physical",
            "description": "Physical limits.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "physical-finding",
                "name": "Physical",
                "description": "Physical limits.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What physical or natural limits apply here, such as material strength or biological limits?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How are extremes and peaks defined?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "personal",
            "name": "Personal",
            "description": "Personal limits.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "personal-finding",
                "name": "Personal",
                "description": "Personal limits.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How can personal limits and boundaries be recognised and communicated?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits wellbeing?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "learn",
        "name": "Learn",
        "description": "Concept.",
        "rationale": "Education.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "teach",
            "name": "Teach",
            "description": "Teaching limits.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "teach-finding",
                "name": "Teach",
                "description": "Teaching.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How can the concept of limits and thresholds be taught across subjects?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which misconceptions arise?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "history",
            "name": "History",
            "description": "History.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "history-finding",
                "name": "History",
                "description": "History.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How have regulatory limits such as speed and exposure limits been set historically?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which references are standard?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should each domain limit be linked to its entry?",
    "How should regulatory limits be versioned?",
    "How should the mathematical sense be split?"
  ],
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    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}