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PSD.2:4.5 - Return the smallest explicit account

Result positionRequired content
bounded inquirySubject, receiving use, horizon, recipient, and retained choice owner.
current participationParticipants, contribution bases, channels, and material participation conditions.
consequence bearersActual Systems or intended referents, supported relations or modal paths, possible changes, evidence, and uncertainty.
concerns and positionsAttributed concerns, duties, interests, agreements, dissent, and unresolved questions; the objects and relations needed to understand materially ambiguous terms.
representationAny relied-upon representative relation and its scope; otherwise the explicit gap.
material absencesMissing participants, bearers, concerns, channels, or assurance that can change the inquiry.
next use and reopenWhich formulation, scope, facilitation, value, or later result consumes the account, and what observation reopens it.

Stop when the account is adequate for the named next use, not when every possible participant has been contacted. If a missing participant or concern can reverse that use, return the gap, narrow the claim, request the direct result, or abstain.