C.37:1 - Problem frame

Plain name. Selecting and using representations for one action.

Use this when. One person, team, organization, or other consuming System must take one exact action or make one exact decision, and several diagrams, tables, models, records, plans, descriptions, views, notations, or other results may each support only part of that use.

This is the one-use selection branch of representation work. The governed move is to decide how the receiver may use independently governed candidate results for that exact action. C.37 does not decide what those results are, whether their subject-side claims obtain, whether an episteme is a view, whether a graph is mathematically admitted, whether evidence may be relied on, or whether the receiving action is authorized. Those answers remain with their direct patterns.

Primary working reader. A practitioner who has more than one plausible way of seeing or carrying information into an action and needs a defensible selection without building a universal representation taxonomy.

First useful move. Name the receiving System and exact action or decision in one sentence. For each candidate, name the direct result it already has, the exact claim this use would rely on, what the candidate exposes and withholds, and the direct result that permits, declines, or leaves that use unresolved. Stop after one row if one row is enough.

First useful result. One logically complete use-bounded representation-selection account: one or more candidate claims with their material loss, direct basis and exact receiving action supported, declined or unresolved. It can be the immediate working answer; the row form and persistent record are not required when no later use needs them. Its use boundary is <receiving System, exact action or decision>. If retained as a standalone claim-bearing object, it has ordinary C.2.1 identity, an exact EntityOfConcern and effective reference scheme; the use boundary does not replace episteme identity.

What goes wrong if missed. A readable diagram is treated as a conforming view; provenance is treated as approval; an evidence classification is treated as permission; several adjacent results are treated as one coherent structure; or a choice made for one action silently travels into another action with different loss, evidence, and decision conditions.

What this buys. The practitioner can say which candidate is selected, declined, or unresolved for one use; which exact claim is being carried; what remains hidden or transformed; what direct result supports the use; and what change requires return or reconsideration.

Not this pattern when. Use the direct pattern and stop when it already returns the complete one-result/one-use selection and limits. Use E.17.0 for view conformance, C.29 for a mathematical-lens use, A.6.3.RT for changing representation while preserving content, A.22 for selected structure, C.13 for a construction or collection question, E.24.PUB for publication, and C.2.P.DR for declarative-representation overread. Use C.37 only when the receiving action still needs the cross-kind selection account after those direct results are available.