C.39.RP:0 - Use This When
Use this pattern when a one-Method, plurality, or Method-relation focus needs alternatives, variants, evidence, and provenance that another practitioner can inspect and reuse. Typical uses include comparing several Methods, forming a project proposal, locating a variant, or checking whether a familiar source contribution still supports the current question.
Begin with the named comparison or proposal use, the focus result or equivalent subject statement, and the practical result the project needs. Search the practice that owns that result; add primary Method-construction and reuse sources when their contribution can change the repertoire. Keep exact editions and status visible while assembling the smallest repertoire that can support the use.
The first useful result is a set of status-preserving entries with claim-bearing source material, supported relations, evidence limits, currentness, and explicit missing positions. An honest gap is part of the repertoire when it changes comparison or proposal work.
Do not treat a bibliography, repository, package outline, observed Work, or list of popular names as a Method repertoire by itself. Co-listing supplies neither Method identity nor an established family, and documented lineage supplies neither superiority, causation, composition, nor present applicability.
C.39.RP:0.1 - Working Distinctions
| Name used here | Meaning |
|---|---|
| named-use repertoire | The smallest inspectable result that exposes subjects, statuses, claim-bearing sources, relations, limits, and gaps for one comparison or proposal use. It is not every item in a repository. |
| identified Method | A reusable world-side way of doing already identified under A.3.1. Repertoire inclusion does not repeat or strengthen that identity. |
| candidate Method account | A provisional claim-bearing episteme about a possible Method. Repertoire inclusion preserves its unresolved identity conditions. |
| MethodDescription | A description of one already identified Method under A.3.2, kept distinct from that Method, candidate accounts, and Work occurrences. |
| source contribution | The exact claim, distinction, procedure cue, evidence item, or representation taken from a named source edition for the current use, together with its limit. |
| established family relation | A classification or membership relation supported under its independent governor. A family label or repertoire row does not establish it. |
| project-local grouping | A named set assembled for one local comparison or selector use, with its criterion and unresolved family status explicit. |
| variant claim | A claim that two practices, accounts, descriptions, or editions differ in a named way. Calling them variants does not decide whether they are the same Method. |
| supported lineage relation | A source-backed relation such as edition succession, documented derivation, adoption, or adaptation between exact subjects. It records provenance, not causal effect or merit. |
| missing position | A subject, relation, edition, evidence item, or provenance link needed by the named use but not currently supported. |