Trade-offs · The reasoning record · Element
The argument
The reasoning as it stood when the exclusion was made.
The part
What it is
The value lies in it being contemporaneous. A reconstructed argument is a rationalisation and reads like one.
Recording what was known at the time is what allows a later reader to judge whether the situation has actually changed.
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.
The other elements in the reasoning record
The dissent
The case against, as it was put at the time.
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Who made the exclusion, and at what level.
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