persona-garden-patch

• is_a::Form Type
• has_status::Seed Stage
• in_domain::Deep Context Architecture
• in_precinct::Garden Precinct

Inquiry Form

Core question: “What should we think about X, and how would we find out?”

A thesis-driven investigation that marshals existing evidence, proposes hypotheses, and directs specific questions at specific people or groups. Distinguished from a gloss (which interprets existing sources) by being forward-looking rather than retrospective.

Inquiries are the primary generative form: their hypotheses, if tested, produce cases; their parallels, if validated, become patterns; their syntheses, if completed, become references. An inquiry may be resolved (producing other nodes) or persist as an open research thread.

Structural Contract

An inquiry form requires:

• Research question — Clear framing of what’s being investigated.
• Current state — What’s known, what hypotheses exist, what evidence has been gathered.
• Open questions — Specific, answerable questions. Not vague wonderings.
• Workstream owner — Which workstream tracks progress on this inquiry. Without a workstream binding, inquiries become write-only. When the inquiry moves domains or the owning workstream closes, the binding must be updated or transferred.
• Sources — Evidence and references marshaled so far.
• Relations — Connections to nodes the inquiry draws on or may produce.

Optional: Directed questions using the directed_at:: predicate to mark questions requiring a specific person’s judgment. These are boundary markers — places where the system recognizes it has reached the limit of what it can resolve without human input.

Naming heuristic: scope of investigation + what’s being determined.

Typical Predicates

• is_a::[Inquiry Form](Inquiry%20Form.html)
• has_status::[Seed Stage](Seed%20Stage.html) or [Growing Stage](Growing%20Stage.html)
• in_domain::[Deep Context Architecture](../domains/Deep%20Context%20Architecture.html)
• directed_at::[[Person Name]]↑ — flags questions for specific people
• extracted_from::[[Research Note]]↑ — provenance
• extends::[[Related Form]]↑ — applies a concept to new domain
• relates_to::[Gloss Form](Gloss%20Form.html), [Pattern Form](Pattern%20Form.html)

Exemplars

• [[Compound Node Meeting Structure]]↑ — directed questions about meeting compound node design
• [[Personal Knowledge Management Method Adoption for Vault Architecture]]↑ — comparative inquiry across personal knowledge management methods
• [[Vault-Wide Compound Node Adoption]]↑ — investigation with resolved structure and remaining questions

Category

Generative form — drives the creation of new knowledge by posing questions.

Sources

Definition from Deep Context as an Architecture for Captured Reasoning, lines 107-108.

Relations

• relates_to::Gloss Form — inquiries that resolve interpretive questions produce glosses
• relates_to::Pattern Form — inquiries that identify recurring dynamics may crystallize into patterns
• relates_to::Decision Form — inquiries that require a choice produce decisions
• relates_to::Model Form — inquiries that map relationships produce models

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