C.2.1:4.1 - Identify the episteme by its constitution

The shared C.2.1 identity of one U.Episteme is:

<claim content, exact EntityOfConcern, effective ReferenceScheme>

claim content is the identity-bearing U.ClaimGraph carried as the episteme’s constitutive claim structure. Each episteme selects one exact U.Entity as the EntityOfConcern of the current claim-bearing whole. Its ClaimGraph may also designate other independently governed entities as participants in relational, comparative, negative, counterfactual, or modal claims.

When the subject really is an admitted relation kind, an already individuated obtaining relation occurrence, an admitted collection-as-whole, or another independently identified joint entity, that object may be the EntityOfConcern. Several participant designations do not by themselves constitute such an object. A negative or counterfactual relation claim can designate the relation kind and its participants in the ClaimGraph without requiring an obtaining world-side occurrence.

Split the ClaimGraph only when it combines independent subjects in a way that makes the selected EntityOfConcern untruthful or breaks the intended identity or comparison use; do not split merely because one predicate connects several participants. The reusable predicate-definition boundary is stricter: before publication, name one truthful exact EntityOfConcern and state what the definition claims about it. If no such single concern can be selected, remain at local compound-claim level.

The effective U.ReferenceScheme supplies the designation and interpretation rules needed to read this ClaimGraph as claims about this EntityOfConcern. Add measurement, comparison, or evaluation rules only when the claims’ meaning uses them. The corresponding measurement or evaluation entities and relation occurrences remain under their direct patterns.

Formal near-miss: a theorem read under a formal vocabulary and calculus needs designation and interpretation rules, but it does not acquire ceremonial measurement or evaluation rules. Empirical contrast: a pump-tolerance episteme uses the applicable units, measurement procedure, and pass/fail criterion to make its claim meaningful; the actual measurement and evaluation occurrences remain neighboring objects rather than episteme constituents.

Changing any identity discriminator yields another episteme. Changing a carrier, layout, rendering, publication occurrence, evidence item, viewpoint assignment, or model-use setting does not by itself yield another episteme. A direct pattern may recognize the same individual as a dependent episteme kind through its stable membership condition, but it does not add another identity discriminator. A.3.2 governs U.MethodDescription membership; E.17.0 governs U.Viewpoint and U.View membership through fixed predicates over already identified epistemes. A.6.3 governs an optional viewing construction between source and receiving epistemes, not view membership. If any work or construction changes claim content, EntityOfConcern, or effective reference scheme, those changed C.2.1 discriminators identify the resulting episteme, not the dependent-kind label.

This identity is constructive. The claim graph and reference scheme are epistemic constituents; the EntityOfConcern remains an independently governed entity related through aboutness and reference. When EpistemeConstitutionRelation obtains, their organization yields the whole-level characteristic of being one interpretable claim-bearing whole. The relation occurrence and the resulting episteme are distinct but reidentified from the same three discriminators.