{
  "id": "humility.calibrated",
  "term": "humility",
  "sense": "calibrated",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "epistemic",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a self-model whose reported window is at least as wide as the range it actually holds, the one report that cannot say more than is there.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "self.personal",
      "model.representation",
      "report.information",
      "window.range",
      "least.comparative",
      "wide.spatial",
      "range.spatial",
      "actually.real",
      "hold.physical",
      "says.speech"
    ],
    "interaction": "The self-model keeps its stated window wider than or equal to its actual range, so every report it makes about itself is contained within what is really there and overreach becomes structurally impossible.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "structurally bounded claims",
      "overreach-proof reporting",
      "window-range containment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A forecaster who says sixty percent and is right about six times in ten can be trusted at every other number too.",
      "domain": "statistics"
    },
    {
      "text": "An experienced surgeon lists the complications she cannot rule out before an operation she expects to go well.",
      "domain": "medicine"
    },
    {
      "text": "A model card that states what a system was tuned on marks the inputs where its output should not be trusted.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "confidence.width",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "humility states the window at least as wide as the range actually held; confidence states it narrow - one report cannot overreach, the other is built to"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "humble",
    "humility"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5:curated-selfmodel",
    "date": "2026-08-22",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "curated self-model expansion"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-humility.calibrated"
}