A.2.4:9 - Consequences

The positive consequence is a smaller ontology and clearer use. Admitted systems may be classified under exact local system-role kinds and may hold obtaining system-role assignments; epistemes are instead used through direct evidence-use, status-use, source-use, publication-use, requirement-use, definition-use, explanation-use, assurance-use, or causal-use relations.

The cost is explicit relation recovery. A phrase such as “evidence role”, “status role”, “standard role”, “proof role”, or “benchmark role” no longer closes the claim. The user needs to recover which episteme, claim, scope, status, time window, provenance constraint, and direct pattern are current.

The payoff is that one episteme can be reused honestly across many claims. Each use can have a different target claim, grounding holon, scope, polarity, relevance window, assurance use, weight model, or provenance constraint without multiplying system-role kinds.