#A.6.P:10 — Rationale

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#What this page is

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#Methodology

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#Content

Upper and foundational ontologies optimise for broad applicability via sparse commitments. FPF’s recurring, high-cost failures are often elsewhere: under‑specified relations in prose, where ambiguity hides in arity, kind selection, viewpoint, and change semantics.

A.6.P is orthogonal to “add a global taxonomy”:

• It provides a repeatable method to restore relational precision without requiring any external formalism or auxiliary authoring apparatus.
• It operationalises A.6’s boundary discipline by ensuring relation talk can be cleanly separated into signature invariants, admissibility, deontics, and evidence and work (A.6.B), rather than becoming one undifferentiated boundary claim.

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Last Updated: 2026-06-17 — upstream FPF commit 646b0b9b (github.com/ailev/FPF)