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C.2.3:9 - Consequences
| Benefit | Trade-off / Mitigation |
| Shared rigor language. Cross-domain publication units can be compared by one stable expression characteristic. | Authors must learn the anchor ladder and declare F explicitly. |
| Safer composition. Composite epistemes stop inheriting a misleadingly high rigor label from one polished segment. | Reviewers must identify essential support rather than read only visible polish. |
Cleaner governance. Thresholds can be written as explicit F conditions instead of vague maturity labels. | Contexts must translate old local language into the canonical characteristic. |
Better interaction with other characteristics. F, G, R, and language-state facets remain distinct. | Authors lose the convenience of one master-ladder story; that loss is deliberate. |