Search words, quoted phrases, and exact IDs across the current corpus.
By default, all meaningful words must match the same source passage, in its text or titles. Matching ignores letter case. Ordinary word queries skip common English function words such as the, and and or; quotes keep a phrase, and uppercase operators control matching.
| Example | What it does |
|---|---|
controlled variation | Requires both meaningful words; their order may differ. |
"controlled variation" | Requires adjacent words in that order. |
SYSE.24:4 | Prioritizes the exact named section. Pattern IDs also work. |
engineering OR management | Matches either alternative. Write OR and AND in uppercase. |
engineering AND (research OR management) | Requires engineering together with either grouped alternative. |
engineering -management | Excludes passages that match management. |
title:"controlled variation"body:"controlled variation" | Restricts the phrase to section/publication titles, or to source text. A field prefix applies to the following term or phrase. |
"controlled variation"~1 | Allows one intervening word in the phrase. |
"controlled vari"* | Requires adjacent words, with the last word as a prefix. |
engineering^2 OR management | Gives engineering matches more ranking weight. |
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PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives Type: Method pattern body Status: Stable Primary working result: a finite candidate set for one decision-support question, with materially different alternatives, their supported and unresolved premises, and the exact…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
… PSDA.6 separates that end from the proposed means “deliver the reserve unit by road”. Working backward through PSDA.8:4.2.1 gives another route: put a unit, a competent crew and their required supplies on that side before closure. The first combination…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:4 - Solution Construct alternatives from the live decision question and useful differences in the inquiry. Make each candidate complete enough for its next use, separate qualification gaps from rejected directions, and stop with a bounded set or a…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:9 - Consequences The recipient gets a genuinely wider but finite decision question, with candidate gaps visible before scoring. The cost is some additional construction and qualification effort. Concentrate it on omitted differences that could change…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:10 - Rationale Structured inquiry becomes useful to choice when its differences change what can be done. Alternative construction preserves those differences while qualification prevents imagination from becoming an unsupported commitment. Keeping…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:2 - Problem An apparently open choice can be closed before analysis begins. A list of pump models omits deployment arrangements; a list of training courses omits changing the Work that prevents capability expression; a list of AI models omits the tool,…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:3 - Forces Force Tension Breadth and relevance A different mechanism may expose a better direction, while an unbounded search consumes the decision horizon. Plural formulations Alternatives should address material interpretations without pretending…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:6 - Bias-Annotation Scope: alternatives for bounded decision inquiries. Lenses: Prag tests useful differences; Onto/Epist separates proposed arrangements from facts; Arch exposes combinations and dependencies; Gov preserves protected conditions and…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:5.3 - Cheap non-use A recipient already has two complete, qualified ways of obtaining the same repair result and asks which to choose. Use the existing set and the applicable comparison or C.11 choice guidance. Another brainstorming exercise adds no…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:7 - Conformance Checklist The recipient question, holder or subject, current arrangement, horizon, and separate choice boundary are recoverable. Formulations, models, and inquiry claims contribute only where they change the candidates. Alternatives…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:12 - Relations PSDA.1 supplies formulation differences for candidate formation, not selected actions. PSDA.3 supplies discriminating model claims, not the obtaining conditions they represent. PSDA.13 supplies shared and contested inquiry claims only…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:1 - Problem frame Use this when an inquiry has clarified what matters but the proposed decision still contains only the incumbent, a sponsor’s preferred project, or two labels such as “buy or build”. Also use it when a request for development advice…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:4.5 - Challenge coverage and stop proportionately Ask whether the set still reflects only one favored formulation, one available technology, or one powerful participant’s concern. Check whether a materially different mechanism, genuine no-change case,…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
PSDA.5:11 - SoTA-Echoing Practice question Best-known line Serious alternative or default Defect overcome and pattern mutation Source roles and limits Reopen condition How can an engagement escape the incumbent without producing a decorative idea list? Use…
In PSDA.5 - Generate Decision Alternatives
… another practitioner reconstruct those distinctions. PSDA.8 may use this set as the alternatives for its named consequence comparison. The comparison must still establish its own value, evidence, and scope basis. Use the set as an input to any further ranking…