{
 "name": "life",
 "read_from": "Split-Domain Cognition",
 "slug": "life",
 "breaks_up": "an animal's life, by whether each part of it is the animal's own or taken by use",
 "left_out": "What an animal means, intends or feels. The syntax names what is the animal's own and what is taken by use, never what its signals mean; they are read for structure, never translated. Things and people hold no part of it: every part is the animal's.",
 "note": "An animal holds every part of this syntax in full. An animal free at the time has its own in every row; what it is taken from in a row is a use. From the rights position of Split-Domain Cognition's animal-rights variant: no animal captured, confined, fed, trained, tagged or rewarded, and none made to speak for people.",
 "element_types": [
  {
   "name": "place",
   "holds": "one",
   "need": "essential",
   "description": "Where the animal is.",
   "elements": [
    {
     "name": "its own ground",
     "description": "where it goes by itself, free at the time"
    },
    {
     "name": "confined",
     "description": "captured, or kept where people put it"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "food",
   "holds": "one",
   "need": "essential",
   "description": "What the animal eats, and who brings it.",
   "elements": [
    {
     "name": "found by itself",
     "description": "what it finds and takes on its own"
    },
    {
     "name": "fed",
     "description": "given food by people, which ties it to them"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "action",
   "holds": "one",
   "need": "essential",
   "description": "What the animal does.",
   "elements": [
    {
     "name": "its own",
     "description": "what it does of itself"
    },
    {
     "name": "trained or rewarded",
     "description": "shaped by people towards something they want"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "body",
   "holds": "one",
   "need": "essential",
   "description": "The animal's body.",
   "elements": [
    {
     "name": "unmarked",
     "description": "as it is, carrying nothing people put on it"
    },
    {
     "name": "tagged",
     "description": "marked or fitted so that people can find or identify it"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "signal",
   "holds": "one",
   "need": "essential",
   "description": "What the animal makes heard or seen.",
   "elements": [
    {
     "name": "its own, read for structure",
     "description": "units, sequence and rhythm, never put into human words"
    },
    {
     "name": "translated",
     "description": "turned into a human word, as if the animal were a text to be read"
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "instances": [
  {
   "name": "Split-Domain Cognition's animal-rights variant",
   "url": "https://splitdomaincognition.org/variants/animal-rights-and-veganism/v1/",
   "what": "the rights position the syntax is read from: whether a use of an animal should exist, never how well the animal is treated inside it",
   "links": []
  }
 ],
 "described_entities": []
}