PSD.17:4.2 - Recover what the evidence actually shows
Use C.36 for the cultural relations and their distinctions. Begin with concrete practice evidence: the changed instruction, observed interaction, qualified account of learning, receiving enactment, selection decision, retained example or demonstrated loss. Label expert estimates and conjectures. A lack of a population study does not prohibit a useful bounded judgement.
The following questions help keep different claims apart. Open only those that can change the current decision.
| Relation at issue | Evidence to recover | What the evidence does not establish alone |
|---|---|---|
| Variant generation | The proposed or actual difference in the reusable way, its source and conditions, or the changed teaching, recognition or memory arrangement. | A new name or file does not identify a new Method; a proposal is not an enacted variant. |
| Transmission | What contribution passed from which source through which carrier or interaction to which receiving practitioner, when and under what interpretation. | Sending or downloading a document does not prove understanding, skill or receiving enactment. |
| Receiving enactment | A bounded actual occurrence in which the receiving practitioner followed the identified Method, with its meaningful conditions and result limits. | Attendance, stated intention or a copied output does not prove that the Method was followed. |
| Recognition and selection | Who recognized which contribution under what criterion, and which practitioner or institution selected which variant for what use. | A local project choice, credential or endorsement does not prove population-wide selection or fitness. |
| Memory | A recoverable description, exemplar, explanation or other carrier that preserves the distinction needed for reuse. | An accessible archive does not show that practitioners retain the ability or habit of using it. |
| Retention or loss | Evidence over the stated interval and relevant opportunities that a contribution continued, changed or ceased to be usable or enacted. | Silence, a missing publication or no opportunity to use the Method does not by itself establish loss. |
| Mediation | The actual tool, platform, community or publication arrangement and the visibility, interpretation, recognition or selection relation it changes. | A prominent display, recommender output or high access count does not establish value, control or cultural success. |
Keep claim scope smaller than or equal to the observed population and period. A workshop account may show one useful adaptation. A review of published applications may reveal cases to inspect. Neither establishes how every practitioner in a country works.
The PSD.15 repertoire supplies a variant, lineage or bounded evidence only when it changes this cultural decision. Its offering status is not evidence of transmission. The PSD.16 arrangement result can similarly supply a local change or observation; resolution of one interference is not evidence that another team learned it. If either input is absent, stale, out of scope or incompatible, obtain a compatible result that supports the particular cultural link being claimed, or leave that link unproved.
For a claimed performed occurrence, first recover each actual performer’s A.13 basis and independently admit the occurrence through A.15.1: performance history, enacted Method, extent and the obtaining containing-System relation. Add F.6 only when precise assignment-bound attribution is consumed. Missing attribution does not erase independently established Work. A case packet remains evidence or description, not the occurrence.
Do not demand a complete causal history before a small permitted intervention. Use the available basis to decide the present continuation. Leave explanations unresolved where their distinction cannot change that supported decision; select further inquiry through C.11.DUA only for an obtainable contribution worth its whole burden. If a new facilitator drops a concern, the cause might be an incomplete example, a changed participation condition, lack of skill, time pressure or the reward for a quick positive answer. Each can require a different change.