A.3.2:4.1 - Definition

U.MethodDescription is a same-individual dependent kind of U.Episteme. Membership holds when the already identified episteme has one admitted U.Method as its exact EntityOfConcern and its claims, interpreted under the effective U.ReferenceScheme, make at least one substantive claim about that method as a way of doing. Such a claim may state the method’s transformation or enactment concern, generic participant meanings, applicability, precondition, intended effect or preserved condition, bound, or internal method composition. These are claims about method semantics, not planned assignments or actual participation. Naming the method, giving bibliographic metadata, or stating approval alone does not establish membership.

The C.2.1 claim content, exact EntityOfConcern, and effective U.ReferenceScheme remain the identity discriminators of the episteme; A.3.2 adds no second identity. Whether the claims are detailed, current, or reliable enough for a particular planning, enactment, comparison, audit, revision, publication, or teaching use is a separate evaluation. A new receiving use alone neither creates a new method description nor removes membership.

If someone claims empirical grounding, state the C.2.1 EpistemeEmpiricalGroundingRelation. If a proposed use depends on a test, write the tested claim, criterion, evidence path, and result under the evaluation, evidence, or assurance pattern that defines them. Do not add these as method-description fields or let a test change membership.

An assertion or description episteme about one dated Work occurrence may cite methodDescriptionRef when its claim depends on that description edition. Recover each performing U.System and its obtaining assignment of a local agential system-role kind under A.13. Independently admit the Work under A.15.1, including its obtaining enactsMethod relation to the Method. Only when precise assignment-bound attribution is claimed, use F.6 performedUnderAssignment with that same obtaining assignment of a separately declared U.SystemRoleAssignment species.