Library / First Principles Framework (FPF) - Core Conceptual Specification
Jump to passage
In this reading

Link to current text

Published source confirmed at last check

Source changed 2026-10-03 08:25:59 UTC · snapshot created 2026-10-03 10:17:34 UTC · last check 2026-10-03 10:30:16 UTC

A.6.REL:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Anti-patternFailureRepair
Representation-first relationA table row, edge, or object identifier is treated as what makes the relation obtain.State the direct relation, participants, and obtaining condition first; treat the row as a representation unless the direct ontology demonstrates that the corresponding representation-producing work is constitutive.
Predicate-as-relationA semantic predicate or its expression is treated as the world-side occurrence.State the direct relation and its actual participants; use the predicate only to state the truth-valued obtaining condition.
Designation treated as occurrence creationA relation is said to exist only because another assertion designates it.Recover the test from the subject pattern and determine whether current-case facts or constituting history satisfy it; let the assertion state the result and let designation justify only later reference, never occurrence creation.
Participant-identity collapseTwo assignments or part-relation episodes with the same participants become one occurrence.Apply the direct identity rule and recover its domain discriminator; use a maximal continuous obtaining interval or constituting work only when that rule includes it in occurrence identity.
Observation-window identityA new measurement or assessment window is treated as a new relation occurrence.Keep the observation window with its measurement or assessment assertion; recognize another occurrence only when the direct relation ceases and resumes or the direct identity rule supplies another discriminator.
Edition-as-world-changeAnother edition of an assertion, signature, or description episteme, or another publication occurrence, is called a new version of the world-side relation.Name the exact changed object and apply its own identity or edition rule. Apply A.10 only when receiving work separately needs a reliance judgment about a claim and evidence; it is neither the trigger nor the source of world-side change.
Relator by analogyA dependent truth-maker is introduced although the direct relation ontology does not identify its dependence relations and occurrence identity.Introduce a relator only where the direct material ontology identifies the relator, its dependence relations to the participants, and its occurrence-identity rule.
Full occurrence description by defaultSimple engineering prose becomes a mandatory signature-and-description exercise.Ask whether later work must tell this occurrence from another occurrence of the same relation; when it only reports the current relation, keep the readable direct sentence and stop.