#A.2.9:10 — Rationale

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#What this page is

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#Methodology

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#Content

FPF already relies on communicative acts (approvals, notices, overrides) as operationally meaningful events. A.2.9 therefore admits U.SpeechAct as the Work kind, treats each actual act as a temporally bounded Work individual under it, and uses SpeechActRecord only for claim-bearing representation. That separation keeps performer, scope, time, utterance descriptions, carriers, and separately governed deontic effects (U.Commitment or GrantedPermissionRelation@Context) inspectable without letting a record stand in for actuality.

This also improves modularity:

• F.18 can remain a lexical entry point for naming (why “SpeechAct” and “utterance” are useful labels),
• while A.2.9 carries the ontology and conformance discipline for the kind, its actual occurrences, their optional records, and their connections to commitments, granted permissions, and evidence.

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Last Updated: 2026-07-28 — upstream FPF commit 17edd955 (github.com/ailev/FPF)