C.28.CM:9 - Consequences

The practitioner obtains explicit alternatives, a usable conditional consequence and a concrete return when a premise is missing. This can prevent spending effort on an intervention that changes only a record or on a study that cannot distinguish the live accounts.

The cost is recovering mechanisms, meaningful variables and competing assumptions. Limit that cost to distinctions that can change the question’s answer or a consequential use. Some questions remain unidentified or underdetermined; a clearer statement of that limit is a useful result.