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"why_it_matters": "Keeps evidence status attached to individual claims instead of declaring an entire pair universally similar." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify a candidate diagonal pair and explain the definition under which it qualifies.", "Construct a comparison of corresponding compounds with explicit conditions.", "Compare diagonal resemblance with resemblance to same-group neighbours.", "Evaluate size and electronegativity explanations against measured descriptors.", "Generate bounded chemical hypotheses and identify observations needed to test them.", "Flag unsupported transfers of properties, reaction conditions or substitutability." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain the diagonal relationship and the main element pairs it describes, such as lithium and magnesium.", "State the exceptions and limits of the pattern when using it in teaching." ], "must_not": [ "Present the pattern as a law that predicts all properties of the elements.", "Use it to infer that an unfamiliar 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membership", "description": "Establishes what the term means in a source and which pairs that meaning admits.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and diagonal placement alone cannot establish chemical resemblance.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-sense-and-convention", "name": "Chemical sense and convention", "description": "Distinguishes the chemistry concept from other meanings and records attributed boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-diagonal-definition", "name": "Attributed diagonal definition", "description": "Record whether an author restricts the term to familiar light-element pairs or explicitly extends it, without inventing rival schools.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source defines diagonal relationship here, and what inclusion criteria does it give?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-diagonal-definition-q01" }, { "text": "Does the registry provenance confirm chemistry rather than a geometric or mathematical relation?", "kind": 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comparison?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "property-specific-resemblance-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbour-controls-and-counterexamples", "name": "Neighbour controls and counterexamples", "description": "Tests whether the resemblance is distinctive and identifies its failures.", "findings": [ { "id": "relative-strength-of-resemblance", "name": "Relative strength of resemblance", "description": "Assess diagonal resemblance alongside same-group and same-period alternatives using a declared set of properties rather than selected favourable examples.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the chosen property, how does the diagonal partner compare with the element's same-group neighbour?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "relative-strength-of-resemblance-q01" }, { "text": "Which counterexamples prevent the claim from extending to all compounds or reactions of the pair?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "relative-strength-of-resemblance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "explanations-of-diagonal-similarity", 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"id": "bounded-use-of-diagonal-analogy", "name": "Bounded use of diagonal analogy", "description": "Turns a supported resemblance into a limited, reviewable inference.", "rationale": "The concept helps suggest comparisons, but evidence for one resemblance does not authorise arbitrary chemical transfers.", "layers": [ { "id": "prediction-and-validation", "name": "Prediction and validation", "description": "Records what can reasonably be inferred and how that inference could be checked.", "findings": [ { "id": "scoped-analogy-transfer", "name": "Scoped analogy transfer", "description": "Attach every proposed transfer to a supported property, a target species and explicit conditions; keep predicted outcomes distinct from observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which unmeasured property of which compound is being predicted from the diagonal partner?", "kind": "action", "id": "scoped-analogy-transfer-q01" }, { "text": "What independent evidence would be required before relying on this 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See [Paparo, Smith and Jones (2019)](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31206958/).", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the cited study test chemical resemblance, report a bond between the elements, or do both?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bond-existence-is-not-equivalence-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed substitutions or reactivity claims exceed the evidence actually reported?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bond-existence-is-not-equivalence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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