A.10:4.5a - Route unlike exploratory inputs without changing their kind
When an observation, objective, former cue, novelty characterization, or similarly interesting item is proposed as a premise for an exploratory or creative move, recover the item under its direct owner before applying this bounded reliance classification. Do not rename every item signal or cue, and do not create a second premise-disposition vocabulary.
| Incoming item | Source/result recovery | A.10 use | Receiving choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evidence-bearing measurement, assessment, experiment, inference, or capability result | The selected claim in an identified C.2.1 episteme and the measurement, capability, experiment, inference, or other pattern that defines or tests its result. | State the relied-on claim, evidence-provenance path, bounded premise use, and existing RelianceDisposition; exclude a locally plausible unsupported use when that distinction changes reliance. | When an option or probe comparison is current, C.11 compares the available alternatives and emits its ChoiceResult. |
| Objective, reward, utility term, loss, preference, or heuristic that is not evidence | The exact objective, evaluation, preference, Method, or source-local construction. | Apply A.10 only to a separate evidence or source-reliance claim about that construction or its bounded transfer; the numeric objective is not self-authenticating evidence. | Enter the term as the declared EvaluativeMeasure, PreferenceOrder, or ChoiceRule input that it actually supplies, with assumptions and limits visible. |
| A former pre-articulation cue that has now been articulated | A.16.1 no longer owns the articulated result. Use B.4.1, B.5.2, or the direct endpoint claim owner selected by the articulation. | Qualify reliance only when that articulated claim is actually used as a premise. | C.11 owns any current option/probe comparison; the earlier cue pack neither selects nor evidences the move. |
A non-evidential C.17 novelty, surprise, use, or creativity characterization | C.17 owns the characteristic claim, its scale/basis, and its limitations. | Apply A.10 only when evidence or source reliance for that characteristic claim is current; characterization is not evidence merely by being decision-relevant. | C.11 may consume the bounded characteristic together with other premises and still choose, reject, probe, or reroute. |
The composition retains the direct source result and an existing RelianceDisposition when bounded reliance is current. A later ChoiceResult is required only for an actual option/probe comparison under C.11. If the source claim is already qualified and the current C.11 record can use it directly, stop; no intermediate premise record is required.