8. Using and revising an answer
Before relying on a combination, ask what can change the answer:
- Does each needed contribution exist and meet the next operation’s conditions?
- Do the observation, information timing, physical preparation and mathematical interpretation describe the same intended situation?
- Does a simplification preserve the consequence now required?
- Can the result be obtained with the available means, or is a bound, reformulated question or different construction sufficient?
- When a premise changes, which contribution must be revised and which can remain?
These questions can be settled within the ordinary reasoning already needed for the work. Additional calculations, observations or records earn their place through the difference they can make; C.11.DUA helps when that trade-off is unresolved.
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