Glossary

Planning (DPE) Facilitation (Pronoia) Analysis (DAE)

Abductive thesis — an open, exploratory thesis (E orientation): what is emerging.

Argument Delphi — a variation: dialectical theses and dialogue over rounds; aims at dissensus — maps tensions and reasoning (lead indicator CDI). The same process and phases as Classic Delphi.

Argument Simulator (Route B) — generator of synthetic, orientation-aware arguments when no real panel exists.

Barometer Delphi — a variation: the same theses rated from one time to the next, wave by wave; change over time is the finding (BCI). The only variation in which a thesis can be retired.

Basket (thesis material for the next round) — the facilitator's picks between rounds; does not change the comment and is not visible to the panel. Opens beside the thesis editor as source material.

Classic Delphi — a variation: the same process and phases as Argument Delphi; aims at reasoned consensus and measures it with consensus indicators (CCI). The value stored in the contract is Classical.

Commensurability — enough shared ground for genuine dialogue; the goal of panel design (not full consensus).

Convergence — the narrowing of positions across rounds.

CP-0…CP-20 — the DAE pipeline's 21 checkpoints, grouped into eight phases.

Dialectical thesis — a claim taken a position on by probability and desirability (N/S/R/D).

Dissensus — structured, well-understood disagreement; in Delphi as valuable a result as consensus.

ECI (Epistemic Coverage Index) — how many of the 21 argument cells (7 knowledge bases × 3 functions) are filled.

Export contract — Pronoia's validated payload to DAE (eDelphi CSV, Handoff Package JSON, DAE_STATE).

Home cell and additional membership — a panelist's primary place in the panel matrix and any additional groups on the same axis; group size is counted in people, not memberships.

Handoff — a structured transfer between stages: Planning Handoff Package (in), export contract (out).

k-anonymity (k = 3) — no sub-group of fewer than three people is reported at group level.

κ (kappa) — a coding-agreement measure in DAE; low κ routes to human coding.

Lock-in — a single perspective claiming universality and crowding out the rest.

Closing — the study's final pause: the facilitator writes a letter about the results and next steps, and it appears on the panelist's home page. Not a state that is set but a task that is done.

Orientation (N/S/R/E/D/D+) — the study's locked standpoint; sets theses, panel type and between-round stance.

Panel matrix — a two-axis designed epistemic space (e.g. expertise × stakeholder).

Pause — the state between rounds (round_closed), in which the facilitator reads the discussion, picks and builds the next round; for the panelist an interim result, not a waiting room.

Perspective = position + view — the same phenomenon looks different from different positions; the aim is to identify what each can/cannot see.

PHS (Perspective Health Score) — panel diversity on 0–12; guides supplementation.

Pick — starring (☆) a reasoning or comment as thesis material for the next round, with a reason; a methodological move from dialogue to a new instrument, not a bookmark.

PIRE — Pronoia's orientation-aware round-gap assistant.

Planning Handoff Package — the planning payload into Pronoia: orientation, matrix, theses, perspective context.

PQS (Panel Quality Score) — DAE's panel-validation quality score (CP-1).

Preview (View as panelist) — the facilitator sees the survey through a panelist's eyes under a preview identity of its own; nothing is saved, and the previewer does not appear in the panel's figures.

Pseudonym (handle) — a stable word handle (e.g. Aurora); anonymous to others, recognisable in dialogue.

QVG (Quality Validation Gate) — DAE's gate that routes to human review when AI validity is not enough.

Real-Time Delphi — a variation: one round in which answering and dialogue are open at the same time from the start; no comparison between rounds (RCI). The aim is set thesis by thesis.

Retirement (retiring → retired) — a Barometer Delphi concept: a thesis that has lost its future relevance is archived between waves. The decision and its taking effect are two moments; the replacing thesis names the one it replaced.

Revision rate — the share of people who changed their position after the dialogue among everyone who responded, humans and AI panelists together; computed in one place. Not the same as the number of revisions.

Round 0 — the orientation: an AI-assisted intake that motivates participants and maps the phenomenon before the instrument is locked. Belongs to every variation; the only way to skip it is the same in all.

Source material (provenance) — the contributions recorded on a thesis card as the ones the thesis came from; a deleted contribution keeps its record, its content is emptied.

Trilogy — a DAE phase group: content, system (depth/dynamics/purpose), futures.

Variation — the cadence of rounds: Argument Delphi, Classic Delphi, Real-Time Delphi or Barometer Delphi. The name is a proper name and is not translated. studies.variation is the truth from which delphi_mode is derived.

Wave — one measurement in a Barometer Delphi: the same theses rated again, the waves differing only in their date. A wave is not called a round, so that the words do not blur.

Phases (1a/1b) — a round's response (1a) and dialogue (1b) phases. A phase adds a capability, it never removes one: answering stays open in the dialogue.

Visibility (blind / after-submit / open) — the per-phase control of when a panelist sees others.