Reason for being · The refusal test · Element
Actual refusals
Opportunities genuinely declined, with the purpose cited as a reason.
The part
What it is
These are the strongest evidence a purpose is operative. One real refusal is worth a page of hypothetical ones.
Recording them at the moment of decision matters, because the reasoning is rarely reconstructable a year later.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.