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A.6.B:5.4 — Quadrant E: Work‑Effects & Evidence

Intent. State a truth-conditional result that can be settled only from actual work, evaluation, observation, or produced carriers.

Adjudication. In-work or by an exact evaluation of work and its conditions. Reading a subject-pattern description or seeing a record is not enough.

Canonical form. Write the ordinary result first, then make recoverable only what settles it:

  1. the exact predicate and object that the claim concerns;
  2. the participants, work or evaluation occurrence, scope/window, comparison frame, and other conditions required by that predicate; and
  3. the evidence or source-use relation and its carrier only when a gate, plan, audit, or assurance decision relies on that support. A carrier may support the claim but does not create the work, effect, or finding.

When permission wording is current, use the branch in §8.4.1 for the exact occurrence or finding, its failure test, predicate, and subject-pattern locator; do not repeat that subject-question catalogue here.

Prohibitions.

  • E-* statements SHOULD NOT use RFC deontic keywords; they report adjudicable results rather than obligations.
  • An E-* statement MUST NOT hide a gate predicate; gate predicates are A-*.
  • An E-* statement MUST NOT assign agency to an interface, record, or publication. For any precise cited Work, first recover each exact actual performer through A.13 and let A.15.1 independently admit the dated Work. Add an exact A.2.1 assignment reference and F.6 only when this claim or its receiving use expressly consumes precise assignment-bound attribution through the same obtaining A.13 assignment; F.6 identifies neither the assignment nor the performer, and missing or failed F.6 leaves the Work intact. If enforceability or commitment is intended, express a separate D-* claim.

A.7 EntityOfConcern binding. An E-* claim episteme concerns the exact work effect, evaluated finding, evidence relation, or carrier condition named by its predicate. A record or carrier is a separate object and becomes the concern only when its existence or condition is itself the claim.

Required references (explicit).

  • If the result is conditioned on a gate decision, the E-* statement SHOULD reference the relevant A-* ID(s) or canonical location(s).
  • If another object is needed to settle the predicate, reference that object’s subject pattern without importing its quadrant.
  • If evidence is used for reliance, recover the independently established support or evidence-use relation and its basis through A.10; use G.6 when an addressable provenance path is needed. Carrier presence alone is not support.