A.6.B:2 — Problem

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When authors cannot reliably answer two questions—

  1. “Is this a truth‑conditional statement or a governance statement?”
  2. “Is it adjudicated by reading the description or by observing work?”

—then boundary statements drift across layers, faces fork semantics, and “compliance” becomes a matter of interpretation rather than a property that can be checked.

A boundary needs a minimal, stable classification that:

  • routes every atomic statement to a unique quadrant, and
  • forces any cross‑quadrant dependencies to be explicitly referenced, not smuggled by paraphrase.