| Method | A reusable way of obtaining or preserving a result, identified under A.3.1 for the relevant participant meanings, applicability, and limits. |
| candidate Method account | An episteme that states a possible reusable way of doing while one or more Method-identification conditions remain open. The account is not the Method. |
| established Method family | Identified Methods connected by an independently governed family classification or membership basis. Shared use or resemblance is insufficient. |
| project-local grouping | A temporary set of identified Methods and candidate accounts collected by a stated criterion for one comparison or selector use. Its label creates no family or membership fact. |
| Method-relation focus | Named Methods and candidate accounts plus the relation kinds whose truth could change the project decision. It need not contain a composite whole. |
| project, process, or case account | A description whose direct subject is recovered from its claims under A.15.6 and C.2.1. It is a U.View only through its own E.17.0 conformance relation. Several accounts can concern one Work; they can instead concern a plan, Method, result, or other subject. |
| non-Method return | A result that redirects the decision to the actual subject, relation, and next useful question while naming what observation would reopen the Method question. |