Glossary

REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Annualized scenario

A year-specific version of a scenario family created for longitudinal comparison; it is not a claim that the scenario occurs annually.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Assumption dependency

A declared relationship showing that one scenario premise relies on another condition, actor capability, timing rule, measurement claim, or institutional response.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Branch eligibility

A user-interface rule defining which records may open a fictional scenario; it is not an evidentiary judgment about the event.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Fictional planning scenario

A declared what-if case used to examine assumptions and consequences; it is neither historical evidence nor a forecast.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Historical boundary

The visible point at which source-bounded recorded material ends and invented scenario content begins.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Non-additive probability

A probability that must not be summed with overlapping scenario probabilities because the cases share causes, conditions, or alternative manifestations.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Review docket

A versioned record of review questions, evidence states, open gaps, required domains, corrections, and authority limits for one scenario track.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

Interactive Review Design

review pressure

A non-diagnostic indicator that an interface or lifecycle scenario has several unresolved design, evidence, accessibility, or governance questions requiring simplification and accountable review.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

Simulation Literacy

scenario

A conditional exploration of what may follow if stated assumptions hold. A scenario is not automatically a forecast or an observed event.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Scenario assumption ledger

A versioned record that decomposes one fictional scenario track into explicit premises, enabling conditions, indicators, countervailing forces, evidence states, and correction rules.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Scenario evidence gap

A missing or unresolved review element such as premise support, calibration, indicator validity, consequence evidence, currentness, or contrary evidence.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Scenario evidence lineage

The traceable relationship among a scenario track, its ten annual rows, its supplied source start point, review states, dependencies, and corrections.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Scenario expiration

A state indicating that a baseline or assumption must be re-reviewed before reuse because its date, source, context, or applicability may be stale.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Scenario family

One recurring fictional premise represented across multiple annual rows under a stable track identifier.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Scenario register

A structured collection of explicitly fictional planning cases with stable identifiers, assumptions, uncertainties, source baselines, and visible non-prediction labels.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Scenario reopening trigger

A defined change or counterevidence condition that returns a scenario track to active review.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Scenario track

The stable identifier connecting all annualized rows that belong to one fictional scenario family.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Source-to-scenario relationship

A bounded statement of what a source may support, what it does not support, and what additional review is required.

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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

World Event Literacy

Warning indicator

A broad condition that may justify closer review but does not by itself prove that a fictional scenario is occurring.

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