Library.Reference:2 - What the names refer to
The same word can name a field, a framework about it or a file. Keep the subject of the claim recoverable before relying on its name.
| Object | What it contributes to this architecture | What a change affects |
|---|---|---|
| Domain | A subject area used to frame a question or organize material. | A revised boundary changes what the designation covers; it does not by itself constitute a discipline. |
| Discipline | A whole of knowledge and reusable practice, with actual constituent relations and a way those contributions constrain and revise one another. | Changes to knowledge, Methods or institutions can preserve the field when its essential connections and continuity conditions remain. |
| Principle framework | An account of recurring situations, problems, forces, Methods, cases, consequences and their relations, expressed as a pattern language. | A revised account can improve the description or change its field promise. |
| Framework edition | An identified body of framework claims about its subject under its reference scheme. In FPF terms, an episteme. | A change in the claims or effective reference scheme identifies another episteme; its continuity and compatibility with earlier editions require their own grounds. |
| DPF Suite | A larger domain framework describing a composite discipline through constituent DPFs and any justified whole-level patterns. | A constituent or connection changes the described whole only under the relevant discipline conditions; editorial inclusion alone supplies no parthood. |
| Product series | A continuing collection of editions under declared admission and reidentification rules. | Admission, retirement and continuity concern the publishing series, separately from the described discipline. |
| Publication carrier and access route | A file, site, rendering or service through which a reader obtains the content. | Availability, layout or retrieval can change while the described Method remains the same. |
These distinctions are developed in FPF C.20:4.6, FPF E.4:4.1 and FPF E.4:4.2. They prevent a practical error: moving a file, giving a publication a name or admitting an edition cannot supply a missing methodological contribution.
A pattern is also distinct from the Method it explains. The text may help a reader perform, criticize or adapt a way of working. The occurrence of that work and its actual result need their own basis. FPF A.3.1 and FPF A.3.2 retain that distinction; FPF A.15.1 supplies the account of performed Work.