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A.6.3.RT:4.5 - Preservation, loss, decode, and composition

A.6.3.RT:4.5.a - Preservation and conservativity

The ordinary move preserves the practical content named for the use. The exact branch preserves the same exact EntityOfConcern across independently constituted X and Y while changing scheme and often reasoning medium.

Check for unsupported strengthening when a target:

  • upgrades a source-visible relation into dependency theory or another relation not present in the source;
  • turns geometry, notation, embedding proximity, or decoder output into ontology-by-default;
  • adds a Bridge, substitution, comparative, mechanism, temporal, or control claim that the source does not state and that has not been independently established under its governing pattern;
  • collapses source alternatives, uncertainty, or bounded scope into one wider commitment; or
  • treats decode-mediated recovery as direct givenness.

Check each target-side connective against the source or exact same-EntityOfConcern correspondence. A clearer, more structured, or more formal target does not establish a broader reliability claim.

A.6.3.RT:4.5.b - Loss and recoverability

State which distinctions, inspection possibilities, uncertainty cues, or local qualifiers are lost, foregrounded, rearranged, or harder to recover. The target may remain useful under a reliability claim bounded by the source or with an explicitly narrowed admissible use. If it remains honest only through a declared narrower use and source return, A.6.3.CSC is primary.

A.6.3.RT:4.5.c - Decode-mediated entry

A latent or decode-mediated case stays bounded until it has source material for the same concern, a decoding or access relation, recoverability evidence for the intended use, admissible and non-admissible use, remaining user action, and source return. When exact reliance is claimed, recover exact source episteme X, receiving episteme Y, construction v, and the source dependencies of v defined in §4.2.

A latent region, activation pattern, embedding, probe result, decoded rendering, publication form, or carrier may help locate the case but fills no episteme endpoint. Missing recovery evidence keeps the result exploratory, report-only, or blocked.

A.6.3.RT:4.5.d - Composition and reopen rule

Repeated same-regime normalization may be idempotent; heterogeneous representation shifts are generally order-sensitive. For an ordered sequence of representation shifts, compare the source and target of each shift and carry forward the loss from earlier shifts. Keep the source and target, content under test, scheme delta, preserved and withdrawn commitments, loss/recovery, and remaining action recoverable at every step.

Reopen the affected account when source content, endpoint identity, recovery assumptions, pins or provenance, correspondence or counter-witness disposition, primary semiotic mode, intended publication or receiving use, or accumulated loss changes. A changed EntityOfConcern requires A.6.4; a changed target-side claim uses the pattern that defines that exact claim.