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A.6.REL:5.5 - Description and publication recursion through the relation-object architecture

Let R1 be the already individuated second MaintenanceInspectionAssignment occurrence from 5.1.

  1. An assignment-occurrence description episteme E1 has R1 as its exact EntityOfConcern. In the reusable C.2.1 EpistemeConstitutionRelationSignature, the declaration-local SlotKind EntityOfConcernSlot names the entity-of-concern participant meaning. In a card representation of E1, the source field entityOfConcernRef corresponds to that SlotKind only through a declared representation correspondence; its U.EntityRef value is the participant designation that resolves to R1. Neither spelling nor containment identifies the field, SlotKind, designation, or occurrence.
  2. A second episteme E2 contains the result of evaluation work concerning the adequacy of E1. Its exact EntityOfConcern is E1, not R1. A field in a reusable card or other representation may carry a U.EntityRef designating E1; it corresponds to EntityOfConcernSlot only through a declared representation correspondence. The two epistemes therefore have different EntitiesOfConcern and retain separate C.2.1 identities: E1 describes R1, while E2 evaluates the adequacy of E1.
  3. Under a publication-relation occurrence, the current edition of E1 is available to a declared audience and use. The selected episteme edition is an actual participant of that publication relation under the publication pattern’s participant meaning. The publication form and its representation elements retain their own kinds and correspond to the published episteme only through the declared publication and representation relations.

A system performing revision work can establish another edition of E1 or E2; a system performing publication work can establish another publication-relation occurrence for a selected edition. R1 continues or ceases only as the A.2.1 obtaining predicate and occurrence-identity rule determine from the assignment facts. This recursive case preserves the distinction: a description episteme can itself become the actual participant or EntityOfConcern of another relation without becoming the relation occurrence it describes.