D.3:9 - Rationale

The description episteme resolves the pattern’s main ambiguity. The ethical situation is not a file or table, while D.4 still needs a stable object it can cite. C.2.1 supplies that object without inventing a universal conflict kind: the claims say what the sides are, one exact EntityOfConcern says what case they concern, and the effective ReferenceScheme says how to read them.

Side rows make the conflict inspectable because they preserve which claim affects which entity and scope. Conditional branches then recover Method, Work, transformations, evidence use, collection structure, agency, responsibility, publication, assurance, causality, and architecture only where the case actually depends on them. This keeps exact ontology available without making specialist prose the entrance price for ethical work.