F.0.2:4.6 - Semantic and methodological results

A semantic result explains what may be claimed, which distinctions matter and where source accounts agree or differ. It can include claims about actions and Methods. Methodological synthesis constructs ways of acting: selecting, adapting and connecting operations, their conditions, intermediate results and returns for a needed use. The difference concerns the question and what is constructed, not nouns versus verbs or the document in which the result is written.

Use C.39 to construct, connect, explain or change ways of obtaining the needed results. E.4.CM applies that general methodological work to a framework author’s public account of one composite Method or several independent Methods. Those constructions can use the semantic result returned here; trying a proposed way can expose a missing distinction or reopen source comparison. Neither operation requires completing a universal ontology before acting. A sufficient existing Method can be used directly.