FPF Reference

    NAMING - Name a governed value for its readers

    Preface node heading:naming-name-a-governed-value-for-its-readers:587

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    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

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    Content

    • Situation and question. An exact already-governed object or value needs a stable Tech or Plain label under an effective by-value reference scheme and local sense. Ask: which name lets readers recover that object without changing its kind, scope, or direct owner?
    • Optional obstacle. Candidate labels carry conflicting senses, hidden kinds, or misleading morphology.
    • Template A. F.18 Solution -> C.2.1 NameCard episteme. First recover the exact thing or value being named and its direct governing pattern. Then constitute one NameCard whose complete claim graph records the effective by-value reference scheme, exact local sense and intended use, selected Tech and Plain designations, the smallest candidate set covering the live head-term families and plausible neighbouring objects, rejected candidates and selection reason, lineage, and the smallest condition that reopens this settlement. Completeness is recoverable naming content, not a field count.
    • Boundaries. Stop with the local NameCard when no public-row use is current; no public row is implied. When public, Core-facing, durable-across-context, or cross-context reuse becomes current, apply the F.17 entry/result gate to the exact governed value, card, scheme, sense, and any actual F.9 Bridge. pending means that gate has not returned the row; current requires the exact returned row. E.24.PUB separately governs making that exact row-episteme edition available to a declared audience through a publication form and carrier. Return when the governed value, scheme, local sense, intended use, candidate evidence, actual Bridge, or reader error changes. A label, NameCard, row, Bridge, or publication occurrence neither creates the governed value or kind nor makes a relation obtain.
    • Public coarsening. "Naming card" restores to NameCard.

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