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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000232",
  "slug": "flower",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/flower/",
  "canonical_name": "Flower",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "SIMILE",
    "SYMBOL"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLANTS_AGRICULTURE"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000546",
      "label": "Flower imagery for fading human glory",
      "classification": "SIMILE",
      "definition": "Human transience and fading glory are explicitly compared with grass and its flower.",
      "not_always": "Flowers elsewhere may be literal, ornamental, or serve other images; the comparison is passage-bound.",
      "scope_note": "Use the fading-glory meaning where Isaiah 40/1 Peter 1 or an equivalent textual comparison activates it.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000546",
          "statement": "Isaiah 40 and its quotation in 1 Peter explicitly compare human glory with a flower that falls, strongly grounding the legacy “fading glory of man” association in those passages.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SIMILE"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 2,
          "grade_basis": "G2_EXPLICIT_LATER_CANONICAL_CORRESPONDENCE",
          "status": "VERY_STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "NT_EXPLICITLY_CONNECTS",
          "scope_limitation": "Use the fading-glory meaning where Isaiah 40/1 Peter 1 or an equivalent textual comparison activates it.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ANTHROPOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000844",
              "osis_start": "Isa.40.6",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Isaiah 40:6-8",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000845",
              "osis_start": "1Pet.1.24",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Peter 1:24-25",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000547",
      "label": "Flower is not a universal human-glory code",
      "classification": "SYMBOL",
      "definition": "The flower image is multivalent and context-governed.",
      "not_always": "Literal and ornamental flower references remain non-symbolic unless context says otherwise.",
      "scope_note": "Do not universalize the Isaiah/1 Peter simile.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000547",
          "statement": "The explicit fading-glory comparison does not establish every biblical flower as a fixed symbol of human glory or mortality.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "SYMBOL"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "public_wording_class": "INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "scope_limitation": "Do not universalize the Isaiah/1 Peter simile.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": null,
          "residual_uncertainty": "No material residual uncertainty beyond the stated scope limitation.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "ANTHROPOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000846",
              "osis_start": "1Kgs.6.18",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "1 Kings 6:18",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000001",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 1",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0045",
      "title": "Flower",
      "canonical_statement": "Confirmed in the source-supported contextual sense: Isaiah 40 and its quotation in 1 Peter explicitly compare human glory with a flower that falls, strongly grounding the legacy “fading glory of man” association in those passages.",
      "canonical_action": "PROMOTE_ADJUDICATED_P02_POSITIVE_OR_RECLASSIFIED_GROUP_AS_DISTINCT_CUMULATIVE_CLUSTER",
      "guardrails": [],
      "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_CONTEXTUAL_RELATION"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": []
}