#E.17.EFP:4.5.b. Loss and reliability rule

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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

A published form states material omission, reordering, simplification, or connection. When any such move changes claim content, the loss belongs to the exact target episteme and its obtaining source-to-target relation under A.6.3 or another applicable pattern, not to an EFP label. Reliability is never silently widened by more persuasive prose.

When a concrete reader-fit difference is load-bearing, expose only enough of its bounded use or overread risk to prevent the actual didactic or contrastive form from being mistaken for assurance, policy, or gate guidance.

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