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A.6.F:4.6 - Common kind and relation separations
Confusion
Repair
function = module
Keep VP.Functional and VP.ModuleInterface distinct; connect them through declared correspondence, allocation, retargeting, or A.6.M module-relation repair.
function = capability
Capability belongs to a holon. Keep a required or desired behavior/effect as claim content under its requirement, architecture, capability-gap, functional-view, method, or other subject pattern; neither that claim nor the capability establishes an actual transformation.
function = work
One W : U.Work is a dated world-side occurrence. Its result or output is a separately identified entity or episteme. Connect it only through the subject-specific direct result or production relation that actually obtains, or use one local A.15.PROD claim for the current production-work, inception, or completion question. Use A.6.RCD only when a needed relation has no current governor. Function wording remains design-side or description-side content unless an exact work-facing claim is current.
function = method
Method is a reusable way of doing. A method claim may state an intended effect, but that effect is neither the method nor an actual U.Transformation; apply A.3.4 only when the actual change occurrence is independently grounded.
function = system-role kind, assignment, participation, functioning, or responsibility
Recover only the branch the sentence asserts. A system-role kind is a local ...SystemRole kind; an assignment is one occurrence and its declared U.SystemRoleAssignment species; performed Work uses F.6 separately; participation, functioning, and responsibility each need their domain predicate or an A.6.RCD missing governor.
mathematical function = holon purpose
Use C.29 for mathematical function or relation; recover domain, codomain or relation domain, preserved and lost structure, lens-use admissibility value, and stop condition.
functional diagram = evidence
Diagram is a view or publication; evidence claim uses A.10 or G.6.
functionality = quality
Recover the quality bearer and subject pattern through C.25, C.16, or C.16.Q before using the wording as an adequacy claim.