A.16.2:18 - Worked Recovery Cases

A.16.2:18.1 - Reopening a routed evaluative note

An evaluative note may have reached a high closure state under one route, but new contrasts give the reviewer grounds to reconsider a serious rival. reopen is admissible when the bearer, family, and witness base remain largely intact but the closure claim must be relaxed.

A.16.2:18.2 - Sketch-backoff from prompt to cue pack

An abductive prompt may later prove over-committed because its open question was formulated before the cue anchors had stabilized. The admissible recovery is to sketch-backoff to PreArticulationCuePack, preserving the cue carriers while withdrawing the prompt-readiness and current-use claims.

A.16.2:18.3 - Respecifying a route specification

A route-bearing publication may keep the same general direction but replace one route specification with another when later review shows that the original framing selected the wrong governing pattern family. The point of respecify is to make that replacement visible without pretending the earlier route specification never existed.

A.16.2:18.4 - Retiring a route branch

A route-bearing branch may later be withdrawn because better-supported grounds, clearer closure, or a more adequate successor publication now carry the work. retire keeps that withdrawal visible instead of letting the branch vanish into later prose.