A.2.9:4.3 — SpeechActRef discipline (normative)

A SpeechActRef resolves to one actual Work individual admitted as SA : U.SpeechAct. It never denotes the kind itself or a SpeechActRecord.

• If an A.2.8 commitment predicate or assertion cites this occurrence as its instituting basis, the referenced occurrence MUST satisfy occurrence-side SA‑C0…SA‑C3a. A gate, audit, or provenance use additionally needs the record and evidence basis in SA‑C4 and needs SA‑C6 only when its inference really crosses local taxonomies, schemes, or policies.
• A SpeechActRef MUST NOT be replaced by an EpistemeRef (“see the document”) when occurrence provenance is needed. A SpeechActRecord or utterance-description episteme may make claims about the occurrence but is not the act.
• If a source cannot yet establish A.15.1 admission for one actual occurrence, it may create a separate U.Episteme identified as a candidate observation stub. The stub is not a SpeechActRecord, supplies no SpeechActRef or speechActOccurrenceRef, and does not conform to the complete declaration schema or SA-C0. It carries a source-local candidate locator or C.2.1 ClaimAddress, known observation claims, provenance for those claims, and explicit unknowns. If the actual enactsMethod -> U.Method relation cannot yet be recovered, record that unresolved claim and its source-gap provenance in the stub; do not invent a U.MethodDescription to establish the missing Method relation. The stub supports no gate or deontic provenance and remains observation-only. After A.15.1 independently admits one exact actual occurrence, create a distinct conformant SpeechActRecord; do not promote or relabel the stub in place, though a separately governed provenance or evidence relation may cite it.