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SYSE.2:4.2 - Name the subjects and direct relations hidden by environment language

Start from compatible current SYSE.16 and SYSE.17 results for the same subject, configuration, use, horizon, and decision. If either result is unavailable, recover only the subjects and direct relations needed for the first linked claim. Use SYSE.16 when the decision needs several operational structures or a co-change boundary, and SYSE.17 when it needs active discovery of consequence-bearing Systems. A neighbouring System may matter, for example, through constructive parthood, placement, interface, interaction, causal participation, use, transformation, collection membership, assignment, ownership, permission, authority, or affectedness. State only relations that are current and apply the FPF pattern that defines or constrains each claim.

Use A.1.SCR when the System status of a proposed participant or containing whole is unresolved. Use A.22 when the current question selects an organization among independently identified constituents and obtaining relations for a named use. Keep several non-nested structures when one decomposition would hide a relevant claim—for example, an interaction, control relation, affected System, or source-return condition.

Authority constrains who may change a System; it does not draw the System boundary. Ownership can matter to a decision without establishing containment. A containing whole matters when its actual or proposed proper-part relations and whole-level consequences change the use or concept. Distinguish supported actual relations from proposed relations and qualified predictions; a future whole need not already exist for its proposed arrangement to affect the concept.