construal

The construal is one of the three framing surfaces a reading may see, beside the committed glossary terms and the committed scope (adr-55). It is committed record as it presently stands, and its history, the declined construals and the reasoning that settled them, stays on the local ledger side under adr-55. A passage that describes an intention rather than a commitment opens with the not-yet-real marker.

When to use

Use it for the frame statement in the framing chapter. A reframe is a change to any of the three framing surfaces, which a reframe record points at without carrying the abandoned text.

When NOT to use

Do not call the brief's purpose or scope the construal; those are products of the framing, and the construal is the frame itself.

Related terms

• record families — the one page that maps the record families and how they relate
• brief
• position, the widening reading being the one that reads the construal to widen