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.