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A.6.H:1 - Problem frame

Natural language compresses several different engineering questions into the same small vocabulary:

  • What individual is being treated as one whole?
  • Where is its boundary, and what lies outside it?
  • Which independently identified objects are parts, constituents, members, portions, or proper temporal restrictions?
  • Which relations among those objects actually obtain?
  • Does a named use need a construction trace or a selected structure?
  • Is the same whole being recognized again, or must it be reidentified?
  • Is “complete” about performed Work, capability, specification, evidence, or another exact coverage claim?
  • Is “integrity” a measured characteristic, an assurance claim, or a claim that an assembled entity remains one whole?

Those questions have different participants, predicates, and subject patterns. A.6.H keeps the source wording readable while making the load-bearing claims exact.

A word is load-bearing here when a requirement, invariant, interface statement, architecture choice, model relation, decision, test oracle, assurance use, or downstream action depends on its interpretation. E.10 is the pattern for shared wording-use discovery. A.6.H begins only after the current wholeness-family claim has been selected by value.