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PSD.8:4.3 - Turn labels into sufficiently complete candidates

For each material alternative, state the proposed change from the current arrangement, affected subjects, intended result, enabling conditions, major burdens, evidence basis, and unresolved premise. Distinguish what is supported now from what is proposed or unknown.

Use C.38 only when several whole ways are intended to make the same receiving result available and labels still hide their different burdens. If the alternatives seek different results, retain the difference and let the decision-support comparison expose it. Do not force a same-result declaration merely to obtain a neat table.

A combination is another candidate when its interactions can change consequences. Check shared staff, facilities, money, dependencies, sequencing, and incompatible assumptions. Two independently attractive components do not establish an attractive combined arrangement. A provider’s advertised capability, a course title, or a benchmark score is not a qualified result for this holder.