{
    "check": {
        "by": [
            "the test-surface catalog, which pairs each dimension with a lens and the techniques that check the pair",
            "the ontology resolution gate over every surface and node that names the dimension"
        ],
        "population": "every test surface and ontology node that names the dimension",
        "freshness": "a verdict stands until the dimension, the surfaces that name it or their lenses change",
        "refusal": "the gate fails on a surface or node that names a dimension that does not exist",
        "observation": "none: a dimension is a question asked of a system; the techniques its surfaces list observe the system",
        "evidence": "fires-and-accepts: a suite plants a surface whose dimension does not exist, and the bundled surfaces validate clean",
        "authority": "the dimension list, which every surface and node that names a dimension cites"
    },
    "records": [
        {"id": "identity",
            "question": "What exists?",
            "mathNature": "object"},
        {"id": "composition",
            "question": "What is it made of?",
            "mathNature": "elements"},
        {"id": "structure",
            "question": "How are parts arranged?",
            "mathNature": "arrangement"},
        {"id": "relation",
            "question": "What connects it to other things?",
            "mathNature": "mapping"},
        {"id": "space",
            "question": "Where is it?",
            "mathNature": "position",
            "mathDomains": ["geometry"]},
        {"id": "time",
            "question": "When does it occur?",
            "mathNature": "process"},
        {"id": "state",
            "question": "What condition is it in?",
            "mathNature": "condition"},
        {"id": "change",
            "question": "How does it transform?",
            "mathNature": "operation"},
        {"id": "behavior",
            "question": "What does it do?",
            "mathNature": "dynamics"},
        {"id": "function",
            "question": "What role does it fulfill?",
            "mathNature": "mapping"},
        {"id": "cause",
            "question": "Why does it happen?",
            "mathNature": "mechanism"},
        {"id": "meaning",
            "question": "What does it signify?",
            "mathNature": "semantics"},
        {"id": "scale",
            "question": "At what level does it exist?",
            "mathNature": "hierarchy"},
        {"id": "probability",
            "question": "How certain is it?",
            "mathNature": "distribution"},
        {"id": "novelty",
            "question": "What deviates from expectation?",
            "mathNature": "creation"}
    ]
}