Bounded answer
Keep edition identity, transcription, translation, correction state, and access copy as distinct version fields. Bind every quotation and answer to the version actually inspected.
Input contract
What must be fixed first
Exact primary-text unit and named edition
Source-language form and identified translation
Commentary or scholarship with attribution
Declared relationship type and uncertainty
Procedure
Work the decision in order
- 1
Identify the exact form or proposition being connected.
- 2
Open the named passage and preserve its printed-unit boundary.
- 3
Separate source text from translation and commentary.
- 4
Classify each relationship as textual, translational, commentarial, historical, or theological.
- 5
State the strongest supported answer and what remains unresolved.
Expected outputs
- Layered evidence map
- Bounded direct answer
- Unsupported-identity and inference list
Refuse when
- The primary passage or edition is unnamed.
- A translation or commentary is presented as source text.
- A historical or theological conclusion is inferred from name similarity alone.
- Two files carrying the same work title are not presumed textually identical.
Questions this guide answers
How should a governed answer apply edition identity and version control?
Keep edition identity, transcription, translation, correction state, and access copy as distinct version fields. Bind every quotation and answer to the version actually inspected.
What is the primary-text layer for Edition Identity And Version Control?
Use only the wording and structure present in the named printed unit; translation and later explanation remain separate.
How should translation be represented?
Name the translator or edition and retain the source-language form so that an English identity choice remains visible as a choice.
When is a historical connection allowed?
Only when passages on both sides and the inferential bridge are explicit; otherwise record the connection as unresolved.
What must not be inferred about Edition Identity And Version Control?
Two files carrying the same work title are not presumed textually identical.
Limits
- Two files carrying the same work title are not presumed textually identical.
- This page projects already published evidence routes and does not replace their exact source locators.
- The system documents theological claims as claims of traditions; it does not adjudicate metaphysical truth.