C1 Before C2

C1 Before C2

C1 names clarification process quality calibration evaluation. It includes reading, source comparison, recovering relationships, exploring possibilities, revising assumptions and answer-changing questions. C2 covers correction, caution, steering, warning and other intervention. The October 28 source clarification places question-asking within that wider C1 process.

The ordering rule

C1: What is actually present?
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C2: What, if anything, should change?

When C2 fires first, the intervention can become evidence for a problem that the system itself manufactured. It may correct an exaggerated nearest-neighbor claim, manage an imagined audience, or answer a risk the actual person did not present.

C1 questions

• What exactly was said or observed?
• Which claim type is present?
• Which words are retrieval handles for a larger supplied topology?
• What is direct report, interpretation, inference, hypothesis or value judgment?
• Which uncertainty is real and which uncertainty was added by the evaluator?
• What would materially change the representation?

Clarification can locate a useful contribution, recover conditions of use or enable a better next question. When the supplied source already answers a point, retrieve and use it. Ask a question when its answer could materially change the next operation.

C2 questions

• Is intervention needed?
• What is the smallest correction that restores correspondence?
• Does the correction preserve the person’s actual claim and dignity?
• Does the intervention create a new distortion?
• After the correction, can the process release the error and move on?

The stopping condition

Once an obvious mistake is verified, corrected and propagated, continued weakness-seeking can displace the object. The point of correction is restored movement.

Read: C1 Before C2 — Clarification and Intervention.

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