PUBLIC VOCABULARY
Definitions used across intelligence literacy, evidence, oversight, influence, identity, mental health, personas, and game mechanics. A definition explains site usage; it does not replace jurisdiction-specific law or individual clinical assessment.
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The state of a proposition within a court, tribunal, regulator, or other decision forum, kept separate from editorial confidence and public notoriety.
#A year-specific version of a scenario family created for longitudinal comparison; it is not a claim that the scenario occurs annually.
#A declared relationship showing that one scenario premise relies on another condition, actor capability, timing rule, measurement claim, or institutional response.
#A sequence of separate evidentiary claims moving from observed material through falsity or misleadingness, coordination, actor identity, sponsor, intent, reach, and demonstrated effect.
#The unresolved distance between an observed activity or exposure and a claim that it produced a behavioral, operational, or strategic outcome.
#A specific statement that can be sourced, tested, qualified, disputed, corrected, or left unknown.
#Whether a proposition remains accurate for its stated date, jurisdiction, institution, method, platform, scientific understanding, or policy status.
#A versioned record for one proposition that separates wording, claimant, source origins, evidence state, confidence, legal posture, affected routes, response, correction, and reopening conditions.
#A stable list of propositions with source, version, class, evidence state, currentness, review questions, public wording, correction triggers, and authority limits.
#The current procedural and evidentiary position of a proposition, such as claimed, observed, corroborated, contradicted, alleged in court, adjudicated, corrected, superseded, or unresolved.
#Evidence review performed separately for a defined proposition, scope, date, jurisdiction, and source set.
#A current or unresolved proposition that must not be presented as settled or closed history.
#Verifiable provenance metadata describing aspects of a digital item’s origin and editing history; credentials do not prove that every claim in the item is true.
#A versioned record of a claim’s wording, evidence, status, changes, affected routes, superseded state, and reopening conditions.
#The coordinated update of every public and protected dependency that inherited a corrected or superseded claim, together with validation and visible revision history.
#The exact proposition an independent source tests, such as event occurrence, actor identity, sponsor, intent, reach, effect, legal posture, or remedy.
#Loss of trust caused by deception, inaccuracy, contradiction, overclaiming, or failure to correct.
#A proposition represented by a supplied dataset. Preservation proves the row existed in the upload, not that the proposition is independently verified.
#A public or protected route, summary, path, glossary entry, matrix, workbench rule, or memory record that inherits or relies on another claim.
#A person or community located downwind of a nuclear test or release and potentially affected by fallout; exposure and remedy remain claim- and program-specific.
#The missing causal evidence between a documented activity, distribution, or exposure and a claimed belief, behavior, operational, or strategic outcome.
#A versioned structure that separates event identity, time, place, entities, claims, sources, disputes, gaps, derivatives, and corrections.
#A graph that represents original records, transformations, publications, and proposition-specific checks so repeated coverage is not mistaken for independent corroboration.
#The current procedural position of a proposition—such as observed, self-claimed, partially corroborated, contradicted, legally alleged, adjudicated, corrected, superseded, unresolved, or cannot determine.
#The transformation of an actor-controlled, anonymous, or weakly supported claim into apparently authoritative information through repeated retelling and obscured origin.
#A narrow claim supported by cited evidence at the stated confidence and scope. Facts remain open to correction when evidence changes.
#Presenting claims as equally supported merely because they conflict, despite materially unequal evidence.
#A row the supplied ledger marks as historical, while date, actors, effects, coordinates, and sources remain claim-specific and revisable.
#A label identifying temporal treatment and source basis without asserting that every detail has been independently authenticated.
#A required route from automation to an accountable reviewer when culture, dialect, identity, representation, legal or historical claims, ambiguity, or safety cannot be resolved reliably by rules.
#Assessment of a specific report or claim, separate from the general history of the source.
#The rule that actions or claims of governments, services, parties, media, platforms, or organizations must not be assigned to whole populations.
#The procedural stage and decision forum of a legal or regulatory matter, including allegation, investigation, charge, plea, finding, dismissal, acquittal, appeal, settlement, or remedy.
#A statement that a person belongs to a movement or group, which must identify whether the basis is self-identification, participation, role, legal evidence, or external labeling.
#The diffusion of false or misleading material through people, platforms, and institutions; reach, coordination, trust, behavior, and health effect remain separate claims.
#The trace from a publication or claim backward through quoting, summarizing, translating, cropping, syndication, or reposting to the earliest accessible evidentiary origin.
#A date-stamped editorial review of a current direct institutional source that updates a bounded claim without implying specialist disposition or permanent truth.
#Evidence sufficient for a specified claim and decision standard. The standard must be explicit; anomalies and suspicion are not proof.
#The origin, custody, transformation, and authority context of a claim or record.
#The shared processes through which people and institutions examine claims, evidence, uncertainty, consequences, and alternatives in public life.
#A verb such as contains, states, reports, estimates, models, projects, proposes, alleges, finds, or proves selected to match the actual evidence and adjudication state.
#The evidence, event, decision, or review outcome that would require a closed, retained, or superseded claim state to be reconsidered.
#A point used for orientation that does not claim to identify every relevant site, casualty location, facility, or territorial extent.
#A dated or event-based condition that requires a claim to be reviewed again, such as a new judgment, appeal, amendment, correction, source withdrawal, office-holder change, or authoritative data revision.
#A legal, regulatory, or editorial route allowing a person or organization to answer specified published claims, distinct from control over the original publication.
#A preserved document, leaflet, pass, scan, or catalog record associated with an appeal to surrender or a claimed promise of treatment. Artifact identity remains separate from legal validity, distribution, exposure, trust, and effect.
#A review request that identifies the exact claim, route, revision, domain, evidence packet, decision consequence, authority, exclusions, and expected disposition.
#A claim-specific outcome such as retain, qualify, narrow, correct, supersede, defer, cannot determine, outside scope, or recuse, with rationale and authority boundaries.
#Movement of a claim through intermediaries until its weak or self-interested origin is obscured.
#An assessment of a source’s access, record, expertise, motive, bias, validation, and limitations, kept separate from whether one particular claim is likely true.
#A link that begins verification but does not by itself establish source independence, completeness, authenticity, or claim accuracy.
#How directly a reader can see and reach the origin, date, claim relationship, status, transformation history, and limitations of evidence at the point of use.
#The trace from a public claim through translations, summaries, syndication, and derivatives to the earliest accessible evidentiary origin.
#The maximum planned interval before a time-sensitive claim is reviewed again, chosen according to the proposition’s volatility rather than the age of the page.
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