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B.5.QD.CF:4.3 - Turn the consequential premise into a constructive question

Choose a premise whose change could matter and whose status is open to examination. Work the corresponding question:

  • An assumed necessary means creates the conflict. What operation could obtain the needed outcome without that means? Follow the result that the means supplied; use C.39 to find or develop a replacement operation.
  • One value is imposed across different conditions. Do the requirements concern distinguishable participants, times or situations? If so, what construction permits the required values in those conditions? If they concern the same participant and condition, a second name supplies no new possibility.
  • A restriction belongs to the present representation or construction. What relation must a different representation or construction preserve, and how could it satisfy the retained requirements? B.5.FM constructs the relation; B.5.RR carries its change through the affected reasoning.

These are common entries, not an exhaustive set of creative moves. State what would answer the selected question: an alternative operation, a condition-dependent construction, a counterexample to necessity, or a derivation of impossibility.

A tentative assumption change lets you explore that question. Keep the conclusion conditional until the replacement premise or operation has the support its use needs. Reconsider a requirement explicitly when that is the selected change; a convenient answer to the changed requirement leaves the original one open.