C.36.RP:4.2 - Locate what participants cannot obtain

Follow the chosen case through its inputs, operations and receiving results. Examine the explanations, tools and capable help that participants can already obtain. Use existing work and knowledge when they settle what is available; perform a revealing attempt when an unresolved difference matters to the next action.

Locate the first consequential gap. For example:

• The method is understood, but the replacement instrument’s interpretation is missing.
• A calculation can be obtained, but nobody receiving it can connect its variable to the physical quantity.
• The relevant contributor exists, but others cannot obtain that help when the work needs it.
• A demonstration can be copied, but its operation cannot yet be used under the changed condition.

These gaps call for different repairs. E.23.CAE distinguishes unavailable access, recognition of applicability, activation, expression and capability change. Restore access or the missing input when that is sufficient. Use E.23.CDI and the relevant learning method when a participant needs to acquire a capability.

For connected physical, mathematical and computational work, B.5.MPC helps locate the missing relation. B.5.RC and B.5.RA help recover a construction or argument. The practice’s subject methods supply the corresponding operations in other fields.

Return the missing contribution in terms a provider can act on: “relate this indication to position for the replacement device” is enough to direct the next work. A label such as “knowledge loss” leaves that work unspecified.