STR.15:4.2 - Separate the relations that can change the answer
Ask only about relations material to the case. The following questions help recognize them; they are not a required complete inventory.
| Cultural relation | Practical question |
|---|---|
| Generation and variation | How do new formulations, directions or ways of strategic work become available? |
| Transmission | Who passes the practice to whom, by teaching, copying, demonstration or another actual means? |
| Enactment | Who actually uses the practice in a qualified occurrence of strategic work? |
| Recognition | What is noticed, praised, criticized or treated as a competent contribution, and by whom? |
| Selection | Which variants or contributions are chosen for later use, support or further development? |
| Memory and retention | What reasons and examples remain available, and what is actually carried into later work? |
| Loss and mediation | Which distinctions disappear or become inaccessible, and how do tools, access or selection arrangements affect that? |
A retained document can support a memory claim without proving that a reader retrieved or used it. Attending a demonstration can establish attendance without establishing capability. A favourable decision outcome does not establish which cultural relation caused it.
Use the direct evidence, Work, measurement or causal Method when the receiving claim needs that stronger result. Preserve a useful qualified account when the stronger explanation remains unresolved.