| Decision leads | Evidence is collected because it is available. | Name what another observation could change and stop when it no longer can. |
| Subject is world-side | A label, notation, score, or file becomes the phenomenon. | Name the occurrence, structure, relation, capability, or cultural process and its grounding. |
| Indication and judgement differ | “The sensor measured quality.” | Name the indication, inference, interpreter, and bridge to the practical decision. |
| Performer and observer have useful kinds | Everyone is called a System. | Use musician, dancer, partner, teacher, judge, performing Agent, sensor, or software according to actual work. |
| Direct Methods remain primary | The pattern becomes a universal evaluation Method. | Use Music, Dance, sensing, field, historical, and recognition Methods for their results. |
| Representation preserves the needed structure | Onset or geometry is treated as the rhythm itself. | Name the rhythmic carrier and event relation; choose the representation for the intended operation. |
| Comparison is lawful | Non-equivalent criteria disappear into an average. | Keep trade-offs, vetoes, distributions, and differently scaled results visible. |
| Availability is not use | Press, curricula, standards, attendance, or views become prevalence. | Separate discourse, access, observed Work, population, and period; state their basis, epistemic status, and uncertainty. |
| Evidence and its burden fit the decision | An estimate becomes fact, or a costly decision automatically demands more research. | Keep the claim within what the available evidence supports and respect binding conditions. Obtain further evidence only when its attainable contribution warrants its cost and delay; otherwise use a bounded judgement, narrow the action or stop (C.11.DUA). |
| Observation does not make the choice | A comparison is reported as authority to act. | Pass evidence to the decision Method and preserve authority, consent, and ethics separately. |