A.6.P:4.9 - Use an actionable guide and keep a small candidate note when grounding is unresolved
For each ambiguity cluster, guide the reader through this order:
trigger expression -> candidate grounded objects and direct relations -> discriminating observations or tests -> readable direct-relation rewrite -> only the additional declaration, assertion, occurrence, designation, or representation needed by the named receiver -> applicable defining or testing rule
Do not organize the guide as a synonym list or make a table field the ontology. A qualifier such as comparative, safe, interactive, or reliable narrows wording but does not restore the head kind by itself.
When grounding remains unresolved, use this informative temporary episteme. The prompts are not a reusable schema or tuple kind.
| Question | What to write |
|---|---|
| Which wording is unresolved? | quote the phrase whose head, participant, predicate, or qualifier is unresolved |
| Which distinction is unresolved? | name the exact question about head kind, participant referent, direct relation kind, direction, or qualification |
| Which grounded alternatives remain? | name candidate objects, kinds, or direct relations, not synonyms |
| What separates the alternatives? | name the observation, claim, identity test, or direct-pattern condition |
| What reading is selected now? | write the selected objects and direct relation, or state that the distinction remains unresolved |
| What changes after selection? | write the readable sentence, optional declaration need, occurrence-identity need, assertion or representation need, or condition for applying a neighboring pattern |
For Alice is at the table, the physically present place and participation in a meeting are both plausible only while local evidence leaves them open. A location observation selects a located-at relation. A meeting roster may support a separately governed participation claim; an exact U.SystemRoleAssignment may also be relevant when its direct species predicate independently obtains. The note combines neither relation and infers neither a system-role kind nor an assignment from the place expression.
When alternatives remain unresolved, the note may support explanation only. It cannot justify a decision, mechanism gate, publication claim, assurance, reliance, or cross-context reuse. Before stopping, name the reader, decision, or work that is blocked and name the observation, test, or direct-pattern condition that would separate the alternatives. Continue only after that discriminator selects one grounded reading; otherwise keep the alternatives explicit and keep the named use blocked.