E.23.CAE:4.4 - Keep recognition and assurance separate

Recognition. A quick return probe is warranted when the practitioner hears “it worked before,” “the model forgot,” “the team knows the routine,” “the dancer can do it only in class,” or another apparent-loss phrase and at least two live explanations would lead to different next Work.

Assurance. Stronger reliance needs proportionate evidence:

• a qualified reference basis rather than a nostalgic recollection or one cherry-picked success;
• commensurable measures, envelopes, configurations, and windows;
• protection against probe-induced learning, fatigue, priming, adaptation, or update;
• enough order, cue-reliability, and transition variation to address the live rival;
• replay, simulation, staged testing, or specialist assurance when live probing would be unsafe; and
• holder-specific evidence before claiming a memory mechanism, causal explanation, or actual capability change.

A cheap reversible probe can support a narrow disposition. A high-stakes capability-loss, safety, medical, employment, deployment, or public-performance decision may require a direct domain evaluation and assurance account before anyone relies on the result.