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PSD.3:4.2 - Generate structural contrasts

Seek contrasts along the smallest productive set of questions:

  • What condition or relation is treated as problematic, for whom or what?
  • Which bearer, place, configuration, horizon, or consequence is central?
  • Which value, duty, interest, or risk makes intervention worth considering?
  • Which mechanism or dependency is hypothesized, and what evidence could challenge it?
  • Which action families become plausible, and which disappear?
  • Who can prepare, receive, authorize, or implement a response?

Do not require one formulation per question. Combine contrasts into coherent candidate formulations. If two formulations imply the same boundary, evidence, action family, and receiving-use consequence, merge them or state that their difference is rhetorical.