RMP.4:5.4 - Historical and interpretive records support different criticisms

For an inquiry into whether a directive preceded a factory’s practice change, the historian retains inspected document identifiers and editions, dates and provenance, the distinction between catalogue entries and inspected contents, contrary evidence and transcription decisions. An unavailable earlier archive series leaves the rival earlier chronology unresolved; its absence is not evidence that the earlier decision never occurred.

An inquiry into how former workers understood the closure uses a different relation. The trace can preserve situated encounters, permitted excerpts, the researcher’s position and reasons for changing prompts or interpretation. A new prompt can be consistent with that inquiry while a move to a population-wide prevalence claim changes its question/design. Criticism follows the declared approach and grounding; the trace does not impose coder agreement as the universal test of interpretation.