E.24:4.2 - Check 2: Stable Identity Test
A candidate qualifies as a durable ontic only when it has stable identity beyond one local wording issue, source expression, or bounded local episteme used for first explanation.
Ask:
- What exact candidate entity, proposal episteme, or source-construct entity is independently identifiable before judgment, and what direct rule identifies it as the fixed EntityOfConcern of the decision episteme?
- Which exact result payload follows from each available disposition without replacing that fixed EntityOfConcern: closing assertions, a bounded episteme, a selected ontology-unit individual, or an unresolved reason?
- What changes the identity of that ontic?
- What does not change ontic identity, even if an ontic-description episteme, publication form, notation, view, or presentation carrier changes?
- Which direct world-side relations and grounding conditions are required for identity?
- Which dependent patterns may rely on that identity? If those questions cannot be answered, keep any needed coordination in a bounded local episteme under C.2.1 or use the subject patterns without another coordination episteme.
Test the invariant against the subject before filling a relation field:
| Governed subject | Identity, constitution, or recognition rule | Relation-set consequence |
|---|---|---|
| Holon or System | A.1’s exact candidate, constituents, constructive part relations and assembly, reidentification, whole-level characteristic, larger-assembly compatibility, and any kind-specific condition | keep those facts under their subject patterns; A.1 explicitly forbids compressing them into one universal relation signature |
| Method | A.3.1’s semantic way-of-doing identity and any independently governed method-holarchy facts | name only the direct relations needed by dependent method use; no head relation is presumed |
| Work | A.15.1’s dated occurrence identity and continuity rule | performer, enacted method, affected referent, resources, and results stay under their exact direct relations or A.6.1 bindings |
| Transformation | A.3.4’s independently identified actual bounded change at the selected resolution | work, flow, production, representation, and receiving-use relations remain separate; no core relation is invented |
| Episteme | C.2.1’s constitution rule | EpistemeConstitutionRelation is identity-bearing because C.2.1 explicitly selects it; empirical grounding, edition, conformance, and publication remain neighboring relations |
| Relation | A.6.REL plus each direct relation pattern’s obtaining and occurrence-identity rule | the ontology unit coordinates common occurrence discipline with those direct rules; no relation-to-relation head occurrence is required |