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MNT.3:3 - Forces

Detailed inquiry may discriminate mechanisms, but it consumes access, specialist time and potentially destructive examination. Early restoration may destroy useful evidence; preserving every part indefinitely may also be wasteful. Sparse failures favour physical reasoning, while confident causal stories can ignore contradictory observations. The required resolution is determined by the decision the evidence must support.