A.16.2:5 - Archetypal Grounding

Tell. Backoff is not regression; it is an admissible language-state move when the current publication form over-commits. Retirement is not erasure; it says that the exact cue, episteme, publication, or branch is no longer current for the named use while preserving its history.

Show (System). On a rollback cue, a practitioner may reopen a prior decision path instead of pretending the original operationalization still holds, or retire one branch once a better-supported successor line has taken over.

Show (Episteme). A formalized hypothesis may sketch-backoff to a cue pack when its framing collapses under new exemplars, or it may respecify its route specification while leaving slot-explicit epistemic precision repair to governing patterns.