| Project choice means population selection | A bounded decision says what the project chose, not what a practice or population later recognized or retained. | Keep the project choice with C.11 or its direct decision pattern and state separately the cultural relations supported by current evidence. Withhold an unsupported stronger claim; obtain new cultural evidence only when its receiving use warrants that inquiry. |
| Performed intervention means success | Work can occur without producing the intended transformation or effect. | Keep performed Work, actual change, Work-to-change relation, measurement, and effect claim separate. |
| Observed spread authorizes the intervention | Popularity or persistence supplies neither authority nor a retrospective project decision. | State the observation and its limits; use the direct authority or decision pattern for any authorization claim. |
| One platform controls culture | A mediating System can change visibility, transmission, or selection conditions without becoming the culture or proving control. | Identify the System, architecture, mediation relation, scope, and observed consequence separately. |
| Archive or front equals cultural selection | Retention in an engineering set is not automatically social recognition, population selection, use, or canon formation. | Use C.18/C.19 for archive, front, and pool treatment and C.36 only for separately supported cultural relations. |
| Popularity score equals value | Visibility and feedback can amplify variants while measuring neither practitioner value nor effect. | Name the measurement and proxy relation; use E.13 and the applicable value/evidence patterns when reliance is current. |
| Local label becomes a root kind | Style, school, tradition, technique, or regime can hide different objects and relations across cases. | Use the term bridge and recover the current FPF value or relation before relying on the label. |
| Card as permission or proof | A case or intervention card is a working episteme; a recorded Work or effect claim still needs its own grounds. | Use it only to keep exact claims together, then apply the direct pattern for each decision, Work, transformation, effect, or publication claim. |