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C.16.P:3 - Forces
| Force | Tension |
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| Compact comparison vs recoverable construction | Readers want quick words such as strong, weak, metric, score, and level; FPF needs characteristic, scale, value, and use boundaries. |
| Measurement discipline vs ordinary evaluation | Some words are informal cues, some are real measurement claims, and some are quality-term or evaluative characterization. |
| Proxy usefulness vs proxy overread | Indicators and scores can be useful proxies but can also hide distortion, threshold choice, and non-comparability. |
| Characteristic-space breadth vs gate discipline | A characteristic space can guide comparison without becoming a gate, decision, or release authority. |
| Mathematical-lens use vs scalar shortcut | A mathematical lens may expose structure, but C.29 lens-use result is not repaired by score wording alone. |
| Small repair vs full form | Many cases need one repaired phrase or compact note, not a full measurement or characteristic-space publication. |