ME.18:0.1 - Working Distinctions

Evidence or result	Contribution retained here	Boundary
occurrence observation and artifacts	overt actions, results, versions, coordination, and traces for one Work occurrence	observed recurrence does not identify a Method by itself
Critical Decision Method (CDM) probe	recalled critical-incident cues, options, judgments, and counterfactual reflections	recall and interviewer effects remain visible; CDM supplies no event-log claim
event-log analysis	recorded recurrence, sequence, deviation, and conformance relative to declared log semantics	tool traces describe recorded events, not intent, tacit contribution, or a MethodDescription
contextual observation or protocol elicitation	coordination, workarounds, or otherwise inaccessible reasoning when their particular risk is named	these moves are selected separately; CDM and process-mining sources do not support them by proxy
expert synthesis	claim-to-evidence matrix, decision-relevant sampling, contradiction-by-scope rule, choice of further checks, and stopping rule	disclose the synthesis rather than attributing it to the specialist sources
candidate Method account	a scoped episteme about a possible reusable way of doing	Method identification remains with `A.3.1`