E.10:0.2c.7a - goal, purpose, objective, and the concern of a method

Read these words with the action or claim they qualify. Whose aim is being stated, what is it about, and what change or preserved condition matters for the decision? A team’s chosen goal can explain its choice of a Method. The same Method can serve several purposes. Keep a clear ordinary use without requiring a formal goal object.

For a Method, A.3.1:4.1 and :4.4 distinguish what future enactments concern from what successful enactment is meant to achieve or preserve. Observing a recording’s timing, correcting it and judging its fitness for movement analysis concern related material but answer different questions. State the reusable action, intended effect and relevant limits. A Method concern is not automatically an actual participant, an object physically changed, a declaration-local argument or result slot, or a field to be filled in a WorkPlan. Use the exact relation or declaration only when that further claim is needed.

For example, a team wants movement analysis with timing error at most 3 ms. Its proposed preparation Method is concerned with correcting the recording’s relative timing while preserving the recorded movements. The plan names the recording to prepare and the intended delivery. These sentences say what is wanted and how the team proposes to obtain it. Whether a particular recording meets the limit, was used in analysis, or improved that analysis requires the corresponding facts and rule; none follows from calling all of them “the result”.

The purpose of a guide likewise states the use it is intended to help its readers perform. Its explanation, the published file, a reader’s use and any resulting improvement remain distinct claims when the decision depends on them. Use §0.2c.7 for an unresolved result or work-product claim, §0.2c.13a for an unresolved contribution claim, and the subject pattern directly once the meaning is clear.