{
    "check": {
        "by": [
            "the ontology resolution gate over the techniques, nodes and structured-document constructs that name the mode",
            "the model-step check for every model whose steps are modes"
        ],
        "population": "every technique, node, model step and document construct that names the mode",
        "freshness": "a verdict stands until the mode list or a record that names a mode changes",
        "refusal": "the gate fails on a technique, node, model step or construct that names a mode that does not exist",
        "observation": "none: a mode is a way of reasoning, and nothing observes it while a run executes",
        "evidence": "fires-and-accepts: a suite plants a technique whose mode does not exist, and the bundled records validate clean",
        "authority": "the mode list, which every technique, node, step and construct that names a mode cites"
    },
    "records": [
        {"id": "observation",
            "question": "What is there?",
            "practice": "identifying patterns or examples"},
        {"id": "description",
            "question": "How can it be characterized?",
            "practice": "defining objects"},
        {
            "id": "comparison",
            "question": "How is it similar or different?",
            "practice": "finding similarities and differences"
        },
        {"id": "classification",
            "question": "Which kind is it?",
            "practice": "grouping by properties"},
        {"id": "abstraction",
            "practice": "removing irrelevant details"},
        {"id": "generalization",
            "practice": "extending examples into principles"},
        {"id": "formalization",
            "practice": "expressing ideas symbolically"},
        {"id": "explanation",
            "question": "Why is it this way?",
            "practice": "identifying mechanisms"},
        {"id": "deduction",
            "practice": "deriving necessary consequences"},
        {"id": "construction",
            "practice": "building objects that satisfy rules"},
        {"id": "proof",
            "practice": "establishing certainty"},
        {"id": "prediction",
            "question": "What comes next?",
            "practice": "inferring future states"},
        {"id": "optimization",
            "practice": "selecting preferred solutions"},
        {"id": "intervention",
            "question": "How can it be changed?",
            "practice": "modifying systems"},
        {"id": "creation",
            "question": "Can new examples be produced?",
            "practice": "generating new structures"},
        {
            "id": "reflection",
            "question": "What general principles emerge?",
            "practice": "discovering the principles behind the examples"
        }
    ]
}