RMP.3:4.1 - Recover the question and the selected design

Start with a compatible ResearchQuestionBrief from RMP.1 or a supplied equivalent. Recover what is being asked, for which use, within which population, setting, period or corpus, and what would count as a useful answer or stop. The intended episteme change is the change in an explanation, model or other knowledge claim that the inquiry seeks.

Recover the ResearchDesignDecision from RMP.2 or a supplied equivalent: the selected evidence relation, live alternatives, core contrast, threats and method-appropriate criticism. Here criticism means an examination capable of exposing an important error or limiting the proposed answer. It need not be a significance test or an experiment.

A ResearchDesignHold with a prestigious Method name is still a hold. Obtain the missing selection-changing result before treating the design as selected. Conversely, compatible supplied inputs allow direct entry; there is no requirement to recreate RMP-branded briefs or repeat earlier decisions.

Choose one operation that matters. Finish the sentence:

We will obtain or examine this material in this way because it can distinguish this live alternative, within these limits.

For the seal inquiry, this may connect a mechanism-sensitive observation to the possibility that acceleration changes the degradation process. For a historian, it may connect an authenticated date to the rival possibility that a practice changed before the directive being investigated. If that connection cannot be stated, recover its source or return the unresolved design premise.