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SIE.6:1 - Problem Frame

Use this when a receiving answer must combine claims from separately governed sources and a simple union, priority rule, average, overwrite, or “golden record” would hide differences in meaning, subject, time, authority, or uncertainty. The recognizable failure is one clean value whose provenance can be displayed but whose conflict or non-comparability can no longer be recovered.

The primary EntityOfConcern is one source-qualified claim composition for a named receiving question. The first move is to state the exact source claims and the subject relation the receiving question requires. The first result is either a qualified view with explicit derivation or an honest conflict, non-comparability, or unresolved branch.

The payoff is an answer the receiver can interpret without pretending that integration owns truth or preference. Do not use SIE.6 to decide domain truth, authoritative value, survivorship, risk acceptance, or action. A domain authority or receiving decision may consume the composition and choose; SIE preserves what that choice depends on.