{
  "schema":"ULTRACON_CON_DEEP_CASES_V1",
  "version":"4.2",
  "updated":"2026-09-14",
  "principle":"Deep cases are depth benchmarks, not privileged cultures. Each record exposes what is known, triangulated, contested and still missing.",
  "cases":[
    {
      "id":"D01","case_ids":["C01"],"area":"France / French","title":"con · idiot · imbécile","status":"TRIANGULATION_IN_PROGRESS",
      "why_deep":"French con is the local anchor of the whole field; it therefore requires the strongest anti-projection audit.",
      "layers":{"lexical":"con has a distinct vulgar/anatomical history; idiot and imbécile follow different genealogies","pragmatic":"insult, teasing, self-deprecation and status move must be separated","institutional":"idiot/imbécile intersect later medical/legal classifications","power":"speaker relation and register alter force"},
      "source_ids":["S01","S32","S49","S50"],
      "rival_readings":["the utterance may be affectionate teasing rather than cognitive judgment","the label may police social conformity rather than assess competence"],
      "gaps":["larger contemporary pragmatic corpus","regional/social variation","speaker-hearer relation data"],
      "reflex_risk":"Because the project begins from French con, French distinctions can silently become the etic template."
    },
    {
      "id":"D02","case_ids":["C02"],"area":"Ancient Greece","title":"Socratic not-knowing and foolishness","status":"ANCHORED_NEEDS_LEXICAL_EXPANSION",
      "why_deep":"Socrates is central to CON^META, but Socratic non-knowing must not be mistaken for a Greek universal category of stupidity.",
      "layers":{"primary":"Apology 21d anchors the contrast between not knowing and falsely thinking one knows","epistemic":"second-order error is more central than raw information deficit","political":"public examination redistributes reputational authority"},
      "source_ids":["S06"],
      "rival_readings":["Socratic irony is a rhetorical strategy, not simply metacognitive humility","mōros/anoia and Socratic ignorance belong to partially different conceptual fields"],
      "gaps":["specialist Greek lexicography for neighboring terms","additional primary passages","history of reception"],
      "reflex_risk":"Using Socrates as a modern metacognition exemplar can over-modernize the ancient text."
    },
    {
      "id":"D03","case_ids":["C12"],"area":"Japan","title":"baka · aho","status":"TRIANGULATED_WITH_PRAGMATIC_GAPS",
      "why_deep":"Baka shows why lexical translation is insufficient: insult, familiarity, regional contrast and intensification coexist.",
      "layers":{"lexical":"multiple senses around foolishness, common sense, uselessness and excess","pragmatic":"force depends on intimacy, region and scene","grammatical":"prefixal/intensifier uses can weaken lexical negativity"},
      "source_ids":["S22","S23"],
      "rival_readings":["some uses function primarily as intensifiers rather than judgments of a person","baka and aho are not interchangeable across regions and relations"],
      "gaps":["conversation corpora","regional sociolinguistic comparison","historical attestations before modern usage"],
      "reflex_risk":"English/French glosses such as stupid can collapse pragmatic differences."
    },
    {
      "id":"D04","case_ids":["C06","C07","C08"],"area":"Arabic / Persian / Turkic traditions","title":"Joḥā · Nasreddin · Bohlūl · court jesters","status":"CONTESTED_MULTI_TRADITION",
      "why_deep":"This cluster shows that wise-fool, saintly marginality, folklore and court licence are not one figure despite recurring inversion motifs.",
      "layers":{"folklore":"Nasreddin/Joḥā status changes from story to story","wise_fool":"Bohlūl traditions connect marginality, piety and provocative speech","court":"Safavid/Zand jesters show bounded licence that can critique and stabilize power"},
      "source_ids":["S13","S14","S15"],
      "rival_readings":["comic transgression can reproduce hierarchy rather than oppose it","later literary elaboration may not preserve an original historical person"],
      "gaps":["language-specific primary corpora","periodization across Arabic/Persian/Turkic transmission","local audience reception"],
      "reflex_risk":"A cross-cultural wise-fool template can erase distinct religious, political and literary institutions."
    },
    {
      "id":"D05","case_ids":["C18"],"area":"Akan / Ghana","title":"Ananse / Anansi","status":"ANCHORED_NEEDS_SOURCE_DIVERSIFICATION",
      "why_deep":"Ananse is a key test against reducing trickster, transgression and foolishness to one category.",
      "layers":{"narrative":"creative/destructive and success/failure positions can alternate","normative":"rule-breaking can expose and also reaffirm rules","comparative":"trickster similarity does not imply semantic identity with fool or idiot"},
      "source_ids":["S30"],
      "rival_readings":["Ananse should be treated primarily as trickster rather than foolishness figure","educational and moral functions vary across tale cycles and audiences"],
      "gaps":["additional Akan-authored scholarship","primary/recorded tale corpora","historical change and diaspora variants"],
      "reflex_risk":"Western trickster theory can become the dominant etic frame if local scholarship is not expanded."
    }
  ]
}