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B.5.2:14.2 - Abort, defer, and split cases

Not every abductive run should end in a prime hypothesis. Three non-selection outcomes are admissible:

  1. Abort. The prompt dissolves because the initiating anomaly or opportunity was misread, duplicated, or already answered elsewhere.
  2. Defer. Several candidates remain live and the available comparison does not justify a winner, for example because a needed discriminator is unavailable. Preserve the unresolved set and its limits without inventing a winning explanation. A separately warranted present action may still proceed under C.11.
  3. Split. The original prompt turns out to contain several distinct questions. The run should fork into several narrower prompts rather than select one over-broad conjecture.

These outcomes are not failures. They are part of keeping abduction honest.