A.6.6:4.7a - Support wording selection test
When a draft uses support, supported by, supporting, support basis, support relation, or a support-headed compound, do not first choose a more formal synonym. Ask what assertion the next reader needs.
If the sentence is genuinely about basedness, write the smallest direct form:
dependent stands in <direct relation> to base
Identify the actual participants and apply that direct predicate. Stop there when it answers the use. Add scope, time, an assertion record, a reusable RelationSignature, occurrence identity, or evidence only when the predicate or one named receiver needs it.
If the sentence is not basedness, use the matching ontology:
| Support wording means… | Use… |
|---|---|
| an episteme bears on a claim | the exact A.2.4 evidence-use relation; use A.10 when provenance, currentness, rival explanations, or bounded reliance must be replayed |
| a claim is acceptable for material reliance | A.10 for the actual bounded-reliance basis; B.3 only for a separately identified assurance claim, with the exact evidence-use relations kept separate |
| a causal, intervention, counterfactual, or simulation-only use is admissible | C.28 |
| a mathematical lens exposes preserved or lost structure | C.29 for that lens; C.26 only for its applicable quantum-like/contextual-model case; F.9 only for a separately obtaining correspondence between exact local sense cells; the direct mathematical pattern for the actual mathematical object or rule |
| one thing helps or enables work | the applicable work, resource, capability, or action relation, or ordinary Plain help |
| a file, section, packet, or companion helps a reader | E.17, E.11, or ordinary orientation |
| a source, model, diagram, or view describes something | A.7, C.2.1, E.17, and the direct describing or source-use relation |
Do not create SupportRelation, SupportBasis, SupportRecord, validatedBy, or verifiedBy as a fallback. Work, a result episteme, its carrier, provenance, evidence use, and later reliance remain separate.