A.6.7:6 - Bias-Annotation
Common biases this pattern guards against:
- Overloading “family”. Treating “many different mechanisms” as “many realizations of one mechanism” destroys level hygiene and encourages semantic drift across members.
- Publication conflation. Using “pack” semantics to smuggle publication/shipping obligations into the meaning of a mechanism bundle.
- Gate conflation. Treating suite-level obligations as gate decisions (“block”) instead of keeping
blockat the gate layer. - Convenience totalization. Collapsing partial orders into scalars “for ease of selection”, which undermines set-return semantics and admissibility gating.