Trade-offs · The reasoning record · Element
The dissent
The case against, as it was put at the time.
The part
What it is
Recording the opposing argument is what makes the record trustworthy. A decision with no dissent noted was either obvious or unexamined.
When the exclusion is challenged later, the dissent is usually the challenge being made again.
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 argument
The reasoning as it stood when the exclusion was made.
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Who made the exclusion, and at what level.
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