B.5.EA:4.3 - Let concrete episodes change the candidate distinction

Return to the details that now matter. If another relevant episode is available, examine what each one contributes. One can reveal a relation the other made difficult to notice. Try the relation on the other episode and inspect both its contribution and its failure to fit.

A shared generic label is only one possible result. The useful finding may instead be a contrast, an exception, a previously unnoticed participant or a distinction between two conditions. Keep recalled events, available observations and hypothetical changes distinguishable.

Ask what the formulation now allows someone to notice, ask or do. When a relation can be stated, B.5.FM can develop its consequences. When the result is an explanatory question, B.5.2 can develop candidate explanations. Use the contribution that is missing; a full inquiry is unnecessary when the new distinction already settles the current use.