{
  "schema": "witness.glossary@1",
  "name": "WITNESS Standard Glossary",
  "canonical_url": "https://witnessstandard.com/glossary.html",
  "terms": {
    "creator_intelligence": "The process of reconciling creator signals, comparing context, testing explanations, preserving uncertainty, and determining what the evidence supports.",
    "observation": "A bounded description of what was detected, reported, measured, or supplied before causal interpretation is applied.",
    "evidence": "Source-grounded information used to support, weaken, distinguish, or constrain a claim or explanation.",
    "inference": "An explanatory conclusion drawn from evidence. Inference is not automatically established truth.",
    "finding": "An evidence-backed conclusion that preserves supporting observations, alternatives, uncertainty, limitations, and conditions that could change it.",
    "watch": "A persistent intelligence question that can be reevaluated when material new evidence arrives.",
    "record": "A governed knowledge artifact that preserves evidence, provenance, methods, uncertainty, and commitment boundaries around creator or work knowledge.",
    "signal_integrity": "The WITNESS capability for determining how much an evidence input deserves trust before downstream reasoning relies on it.",
    "competing_explanation": "An alternative account of the same observations that must be considered before selecting a leading explanation.",
    "uncertainty": "The explicit representation of what is unknown, incomplete, weakly supported, disputed, or dependent on unresolved evidence.",
    "provenance": "Information about where evidence came from, how it was obtained, and the chain of source or custody relevant to evaluating it.",
    "reconciliation": "The process of aligning source identity, timestamps, metric semantics, units, provider constraints, provenance, and contradictions before comparison.",
    "baseline": "A historical or contextual reference state used to determine whether a current signal is normal, novel, or materially changed.",
    "material_change": "A change significant enough to alter a Finding, priority, hypothesis, or creator decision rather than merely creating noise.",
    "change_condition": "A specified new observation or evidence state that would materially alter the current conclusion.",
    "protected_principal": "The design principle that the creator is the party WITNESS exists to serve and protect; the creator's evidence is not treated as the product.",
    "canonical_evaluation": "A governed evaluation state kept distinguishable from raw source reports and model-generated analysis.",
    "evidence_backed_ai": "AI reasoning in which sources, observations, inference, uncertainty, alternatives, and conclusions remain inspectably connected."
  }
}