#A.2.9:10 — Rationale

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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 enacting an exact Method, and uses SpeechActRecord only for claim-bearing representation. That separation keeps performer, obtaining assignment, role and recognition taxonomies, effective schemes, any receiving claim scope, optional MethodDescription and channel, act interval, utterance descriptions, carriers, and separately governed effect intervals and deontic relations (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: 2026-08-03 — upstream FPF commit 9dd92159 (github.com/ailev/FPF)