A.15.6:4.3 - Recover a case concern through one named subject or claim

A case label is a cue to read the closure question. Recover:

1. the named subject or claim and the pattern that identifies it;
2. only the Work, changes, conditions, measurements, evidence, decisions, and references used by this closure question;
3. the pattern and facts that define the closure basis;
4. the later receiving use, named plainly but kept outside the closed case.

The subject need not be one continuing changed entity. It may be any independently identified thing or claim needed by the closure question—for example, a maintained System, patient, material batch, episteme edition thread, characteristic bearer or assignment, measurement or result episteme, relation occurrence, decision, Work occurrence, or selected edition-lineage structure. Each keeps its own identity rule. Changed claim content identifies another episteme; a value neither changes nor acts merely because it is measured.

Do not infer the case subject from a log’s case key or from one record format. Object-centric evidence may connect several objects and several possible groupings. Select the grouping the closure question needs and state the information lost by any flattening. CMMN, DCR, Declare, and similar notations can help represent flexible case work, but their usefulness or ease of use is a separate use question; notation does not choose the subject, close the case, or prove that Work occurred.

If a case claim must persist, use one or more ordinary C.2.1 epistemes. A case record remains an episteme and has no participant slots; any SlotSpec belongs to the signature of the relation it declares. Split closure, relation, evidence, and network-selection claims when they concern different subjects. Use A.22 only when one named later use must reuse their organization as one selected structure and all four identity discriminators pass.

You may state the working boundary without asserting a new relation. If a later use requires a relation from the closed case to that use, apply the pattern that defines or tests that relation. If none does, return its participants and missing-governor; prose or a record cannot make it obtain.

A reusable Method or completed Work alone closes no case and proves no Transformation. State the separate closure or change claim and apply the pattern that defines it.