F.0.2:9 - Consequences

Benefits:

• framework authors can produce a useful first claim before a complete account or UTS exists;
• source differences that alter action remain visible instead of being normalized away;
• small and large synthesis investments have separate methods that can reuse the same identified source claims; and
• DPFs reuse one method while retaining their own doctrine, evidence, examples, and currentness.

Costs and trade-offs:

• authors must recover source claims and editions rather than cite files or bibliographies as wholes;
• a contrast or unresolved inquiry can be the correct result even when a positive synthesis was expected; and
• later reliance still needs the evidence-use, decision, admission, assurance, or publication claims required by that use.