ME.1:0.1 - Working Distinctions

Name used here	Meaning
Method	A reusable way of obtaining or preserving a result, identified under `A.3.1` for the relevant participant meanings, applicability, and limits.
candidate Method account	An episteme that states a possible reusable way of doing while one or more Method-identification conditions remain open. The account is not the Method.
established Method family	Identified Methods connected by an independently governed family classification or membership basis. Shared use or resemblance is insufficient.
project-local grouping	A temporary set of identified Methods and candidate accounts collected by a stated criterion for one comparison or selector use. Its label creates no family or membership fact.
Method-relation focus	Named Methods and candidate accounts plus the relation kinds whose truth could change the project decision. It need not contain a composite whole.
project, process, or case account	A description whose direct subject is recovered from its claims under `A.15.6` and `C.2.1`. It is a `U.View` only through its own `E.17.0` conformance relation. Several accounts can concern one Work; they can instead concern a plan, Method, result, or other subject.
non-Method return	A result that redirects the decision to the actual subject, relation, and next useful question while naming what observation would reopen Method Engineering.