A.6.1:4.11 - Change the exact object that changed

When mechanism content, EntityOfConcernRef, or the effective U.ReferenceScheme changes, identify another U.Mechanism episteme under C.2.1. A changed operation, argument or result declaration, application predicate, application identity or extent rule, law, admission predicate, applicability claim, or relied-on dependency therefore changes the declaration episteme when its semantic content changes.

Call that later episteme an edition of an earlier mechanism episteme only when the exact C.2.1 EpistemeEditionRelation obtains. With that relation, G.11 may follow the lineage to discover the later declaration and then re-evaluate its applicability, applications, bindings, and realizations. Without it, keep the later declaration as a non-continuing replacement and open those current-use and realization questions independently. A shared label, refinement claim, later publication, or changed filename supplies no continuity.

Treat a new particular application or binding, new realizer, failed evaluation, new evidence item, changed Work occurrence, returned value, or new publication as a change to that neighboring object and its affected relation. Reconsider the mechanism declaration only when the change overturns relied-on mechanism-content semantics.

Use E.20 when introducing a new mechanism declaration or changing the governing assignment of mechanism semantics. Use G.11 when the question is currentness, freshness, selection of a continuing later episteme, or decay of a relied-on declaration or cited source episteme.