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SYSE.1:4.2 - Recover the direct subject before forcing a System choice

Use A.15.6 when project, process, or case wording hides whether the current subject is performed Work, a reusable Method, a selected structure, a transformation-flow structure, a changed referent, or another claim. If that direct subject answers the decision, stop this pattern use and keep the subject under its own FPF pattern.

When the decision does need a System, distinguish two cases:

  • For an actual System, use A.1.SCR when recognition is unresolved. Its constructive criterion supplies the tested System identity and boundary used in the comparison.
  • For a System that does not yet exist, keep the intended referent in the current plan, decision, or description. Do not describe it as an already acting System.

Recognition and project designation remain different claims. Recognizing an actual System does not select it for the project; selecting an intended referent does not make it physically present.