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A.7.1:4.2 - Start from the defeated consequence

Name five things in ordinary domain language:

  1. the affected engineering result and its required guarantee;
  2. the smallest claim whose current reading fails or is disputed;
  3. the observed consequence failure, subject-pattern invariant, or grounded counterexample;
  4. at least one candidate correction or a request to recover one; and
  5. the action that must remain blocked until the distinction is settled.

One defeated reading is enough. Recovering or constructing an alternative can be part of the work.