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PSD.3:0 - Use This When

Use this pattern when one wording of “the problem” is becoming naturalized even though materially different accounts would change what is included, what evidence matters, which interventions are plausible, whose values are exposed, or what the recipient should do next.

Begin from the bounded engagement question in PSD.1. Use the PSD.2 participation and concern account when affected participants, Systems, duties, interests, or dissent are material. Generate formulations that differ in decision-bearing structure, not merely vocabulary, and return them without selecting a winner.

The practical gain is an inspectable choice of frames before modeling, option generation, or comparison locks in the sponsor’s first account. Do not use PSD.3 for a thesaurus exercise, generic creativity session, alternative generation for an already-stable problem (PSD.8), or archive/front stewardship (C.18). If one formulation is already adequate and no credible rival could change the receiving use, proceed to the actual missing result.