C.21:1 - Problem Frame

A discipline can persist as its constituents and associated epistemes, practices, standards, institutions, and Work change. Teams routinely say “replication is improving,” “the field is fragmented,” or “standards are converging.” Such a sentence can be useful before it becomes a dashboard row, but any relied-on comparison needs exact Characteristic, Scale, measurement, scope, and basis semantics.

C.21 therefore treats health as a vector of separately typed coordinate claims. It does not imply one scalar health value. A threshold or target band is an acceptance declaration under G.4, not part of the Characteristic. A dashboard is a representation over already constituted claims, not their ontology or authority.