#A.6.B:13 — Rationale

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#Content

The square is the smallest authoring primitive that forces an explicit choice along two axes that are otherwise routinely conflated:

• Truth vs governance (what is the case vs what is required/committed), and
• Description vs work (what can be decided by reading vs what must be decided by observing execution).

By requiring atomicity and explicit cross‑quadrant references, the square converts “contract talk” into a set of routed, evolvable claims with clear adjudication semantics.