ME.4:1.1 - Working Distinctions

Name used here	Meaning
documentary source boundary	The exact package, edition, snapshot, or bounded corpus from which the receiving use recovers claims. It establishes no Method whole.
documentary role	How this source may contribute now: for example, a current comparator, maintained synthesis, normative statement, historical account, Method claim, or worked example. These are source-use descriptions, not FPF kinds.
recovery profile	How much source-local recovery the use needs. It differs from what the source is evidence for.
dossier entry	One source-traceable contribution retaining its existing kind or ordinary unresolved status.
source meaning	What the selected source says or uses the contribution to do, before local adaptation or cross-source comparison.
bounded use	The receiving decision, scope, conditions, and claim for which the contribution is recovered.
decision-bearing relation	A direct relation whose truth changes whether or how the contribution can be used.
provenance-preserving dependency slice	The smallest set of source claims, descriptions, inputs/results, support, evidence references, and relations needed to judge one Method or candidate account.
navigation section	An open reading aid, such as “Methods and accounts” or “Systems and support”; membership creates no type.

Heavyweight packages connect concerns through publication, pedagogy, institutional history, tools, or viewpoints. Their visible organization may differ from Method, Work, subject, description, capability/provider/support, allocation, or cultural structures.

Method Content Theory and design-Method element research contribute questions about goal, procedure, rationale, framing, mindset, representation, intended use, and tools. Keep the answers with the Method, candidate account, description, capability, support relation, cultural claim, or other subject they actually concern. Several sources can ask similar questions without giving the same answer.