Editing Philosophical Research:Data model (section)

== Statement Items ==

* Statement Items: z2, s2, f2
** these Items express concrete, hypothetical, or purely-counterfactual relationships between elementary Items.
** this is a somewhat different way of doing things than Wikidata does them. it means that at an internal level, the whole notion of named Claims could possibly be replaced with regular Items with shorter ID strings.
** relying on Statement Items has the advantage of making the [[Help:Embedding RDF in wiki pages|SeaTurtle approach]] more viable.
** it also has the advantage of making it easier to achieve [[Philosophical Research:Schizophrenic point of view|SPoV]] from the beginning. Statement Items inherently promote the emergence of plural ontologies suitable for modeling a real world of competing plural philosophies and models.

=== S2 Statements ===

An S2 Statement is a proposition which groups objects or concepts and the semantic relationships between them into definite claims. The simplest kind of S2 Statement is a declarative claim assigning one thing to be the same as another: <strong>Golden Freddy</strong> <i>is</i> <strong>Cassidy</strong>. If there is considerable doubt that this claim is an objective fact about something that everyone can verify or confirm, it should not be casually put on a specific Z1 or S1 Item as if it is physical reality. At the same time, if a particular claim has been repeated many times, the claim is fully worth recording as its own entity — an entity we know as <i>a possibly-true but uncertain claim</i>. An S2 Statement can be an unproved mathematics conjecture, a scientific hypothesis, a fan theory about a fictional media series, a philosophical or ideological statement which is difficult to scientifically substantiate at the present time, a truly unfalsifiable statement made up to troll philosophers which still probably can be broken down into other statements that characterize what it is, a popular conspiracy theory, or any number of other possible kinds of statements which assert something to be true either in the real world or some hypothetical space. In the case of conspiracy theories and harmful reactionary beliefs, it is advisable that the statement be worded in the way that least promotes belief in the statement, such that it becomes obvious that the content of the entry will be focused on showing in what verifiable ways it is not true. Any especially debunked statement may be classified as an F2 Statement.

=== F2 Statements ===

F2 Statements are propositions which cannot in any real way be substantiated. "F" stands for <i>false</i> or <i>fringe-science</i>, or may in a few limited cases suggest <i>fiction</i>. In order to classify a statement as an F2 Statement, there must be some general set of falsifiability parameters, such as the set of all physics statements known to be true in reality, or a set of fictional rules which solidly make it possible to declare a statement about a work of fiction <i>non-continuous</i> with the source material. An F2 Statement should be largely uncontroversial as false, and propositions should not be marked F2 Statements lightly; if there is major controversy about whether a statement can be considered false, it should remain an S2 Statement. With this said, F2 Statements have other possible uses than simply archiving outdated claims that are not true of reality. Some number of F2 Statements may be useful in defining fictional tropes, such as "Minds can communicate at a distance" or "Spaceships can exceed the speed of light". In general, S2 Statements represent the full set of propositions which are possible as counterfactual claims or which are true, and F2 Statements represent the subset of S2 Statements which can only be counterfactual. A good point of reference is the SCP Foundation Wiki — any particular SCP report is chock full of F2 Statements directly based in the rules of reality and yet quite literally describing events which oppose and contradict said rules. Statements describing the behavior of an SCP-classified anomaly as if it were normal, such as "All flesh originates from Yaldabaoth", or "Objects can spontaneously duplicate themselves", are perfect examples of F2 Statements. This further suggests an important purpose of all F2 Statements: each claim should be used to explain under what conditions the counterfactual event is possible. In the case of fiction, the explanations may be elaborate mythological ontologies. In the case of simple real-world misconceptions the explanation may boil down to a simple error or fallacy.

=== Z2 Statements ===

In the future, there may be a category of Z2 Statements, which group Z Items into such things as agreed-on physical laws in the same way S2 Statements group S Items into hypothetical propositions. A Z2 Statement is not always to be taken as undeniably true and never to be falsified, but it should have a certain level of verifiability such that it is easy for multiple people in different parts of the world to demonstrate that it is at least partly true. A physics equation could be expressed in a Z2 Statement. At this time in history most claims in Marxism should not be Z2 Statements, although for a few especially-repeatable observations there could be exceptions. "Bolshevism generally instantiates itself in the form of a nation-state" might or might not be an acceptable Z2 Statement — this statement has always been observed to be true, and yet, it has exactly the form of a statement which could contain a black swan fallacy.