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B.1:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
Anti-pattern
Symptom
Repair
Gamma as head ontology
Γ is treated as the thing that makes all wholes.
Recover the ontology-side claim first; use Γ only as constructional or mathematical apparatus when selected.
Graph as structure
A diagram or graph is treated as the part-whole structure.
Name the selected structure and relation pattern; keep the graph as representation or math lens.
Method as work
A method decomposition is used as evidence that work occurred.
Use A.15.1 for performed-work occurrence and evidence.
Collection as acting whole
A list or pool decides, acts, or bears responsibility.
Recover who or what belongs under the collection’s own rule or its collection-as-whole account, or admit the actual collective System under A.1. A system-role kind, assignment, Method, or Work does not establish responsibility; name the predicate and the pattern or rule that defines it, or state that this is missing.
Emergence by narrative
“More than the sum” replaces existing-whole analysis.