Determination

Determination names the temporary scoped hold produced when pressure has been retraced, checked, and bounded enough for a next answerable step.

A determination is not simply an answer. It is an answerable hold.

Places

Determination places the temporary scoped hold produced when pressure has been retraced, checked, and bounded enough for a next answerable step.

Holds

Determination is held by Ark Run, Determine, Hold, Trace, Scope, and Check.

It must show what was determined, at what scope, by what dependency trace, under what warrant, and with what remaining openness.

Pairs

Determination pairs with Decision. Decision may select; Determination holds only where the selected read remains scoped, warranted, and retraceable.

Traces

• Determine
• Ark Run
• Hold
• Trace
• Scope
• Check

Nests

Determination nests inside Ark Run as the held state between bounded scope and next carrying posture.

Reads

Determination becomes recognisable where a participant can state:

• what is now temporarily fixed;
• the scope of read in which it is fixed;
• the retrace that warrants it;
• what remains open;
• where the determination may be challenged;
• how it may be revised.

An AI may make a determination only where the determination can itself be discerned.

Carries

• Care-Control Check