A.6.3.NAR:4.6 - Reopen, lower, and return rule
An ordinary narrative remains fit while its source material, selected structures, reader use, ordering/connective account, loss statement, and return still match the actual use. An exact case additionally depends on the current identities of X and Y, the construction n, its source relations, and every exact qualification used by the receiving claim. Repair the smallest affected account and its dependent claims; do not turn NAR into a general narrative monitor.
| Trigger | Required move |
|---|---|
| Source material or selected structures change | Recompare the narrative with the changed source, revise ordering, preservation, loss, unsupported additions, and return, and lower use until the useful path is honest again. |
An exact discriminator of X, Y, an additional source episteme, or a depended-on relation changes | Reidentify only the changed exact object; restate the affected part of n, preservation, loss, and return. Use C.33 only for architecture-relevant captured/lost structure and G.2 only for its SoTA harvesting/synthesis claims. |
| Intended reader or listener use becomes stronger, broader, or more reliance-facing | Lower the existing narrative to its supported use. Open the exact branch only if the changed receiver now makes claim identity material, and add only the identity, source-chain, evidence, assurance, ethics, publication, or policy account that receiver requires; otherwise revise the ordinary note and stop there. |
| Ordering rationale or connective account changes | Reopen the ordering and visible-loss account. Use RT as well when a material representation-scheme shift remains after narrative ordering is accounted for; use CSC when a narrower-use coarsened episteme is primary. |
| Exact source material is missing, stale, or unreachable, or a stronger claim still lacks its claim-specific result | Lower downstream use. Restore access to the exact source material; when the stronger claim is current, apply the pattern whose Solution answers that question and keep the claim unresolved until its result is available. Use G.11 when currentness or freshness is the live defect. |
| Generated output, source-pack plan, schema, or admission result changes | Use C.35 for admission of an affected generated result to architecture use and G.2 for its SoTA harvesting/synthesis claims; reopen NAR only for the affected source-to-narrative relation, loss, and return. |
| Domain narrative vocabulary or relevant narrative, NLG, or cognitive SoTA changes a relied-on field | Refresh that domain basis and replay the affected use; do not enlarge Core vocabulary merely to mirror the domain source. |
| Downstream use requires evidence, assurance, ethics, publication, policy, decision, or work authority that NAR does not supply | Keep NAR as the narrative construction account and state the stronger claim under A.10, B.3, D.1–D.5, E.24.PUB, or the exact pattern that defines the needed decision or Work relation. |
| A correspondence or preservation claim weakens | Use C.34 for the correspondence that remains only when the receiving architecture use is within its scope, and C.33 for captured/lost architecture-relevant structures. Revisit a depended-on C.2.8 structural comparison and its domain evaluation when the weakened claim changes what counts as correct recovery. Lower uses that required stronger sameness. |
| Observer preparation, access, assistance or budget changes for a relied-on structural-amount claim | Reopen that C.2.8 comparison under the changed conditions. Revise the narrative when the changed recovery no longer supports its stated reader use. |