#A.6.C:9 — Consequences

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#What this page is

This is generated FPF reference text from the specification preface or supporting sections. It helps interpret FPF; it is not FPF Reference product documentation.

#Methodology

Use it to understand how the specification wants to be read, then return to a route, pattern, or work packet for active work. Cite generated IDs only when the wording changes the task decision.

#Content

Benefits

• Category mistakes (“contract soup”) become systematically repairable.
• Generic prescriptions remain usable without invented occurrences, while individual commitments remain distinguishable and adjudicable through their actual bearer, rule, instituting basis, scope, validity, and any evidence needed for reliance.
• Boundaries remain evolvable: laws, gates, governance, and evidence can evolve with controlled coupling.

Trade-offs and mitigations

• Additional authoring effort; mitigated by applying the unpacking only when contract-like wording leaves a consequential ambiguity, and by persisting a Claim Register entry only when stable reuse, decision, audit, dispute, or cross-face projection needs it.
• Some stakeholders prefer “one sentence contract”; mitigated by MVPK faces that present curated projections while keeping the underlying claim set coherent.

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Last Updated: 2026-09-04 — upstream FPF commit d7a71234 (github.com/ailev/FPF)