disposition

A disposition is a second act and a second write. The reading's item exists before it is dispositioned, so the record can always show that a finding existed before it was answered. Rejected names the purpose an intentional constraint protects; held carries an exit condition; accepted and declined carry grounds. Which states are available varies by position, and an item with no disposition is outstanding, which is a report and never a state.

When to use

Use it for the record and the act of answering a reading item, and for the scope-condition disposition, the same word applied to an ex-ante assumption: survived, narrowed, falsified or untested.

When NOT to use

Do not call a disposition a resolution: resolved means fixed, and an accepted tension may be accepted and deliberately not acted on. Do not reuse the issue ledger's open, resolved and wontfix.

Related terms

• record families — the one page that maps the record families and how they relate
• admission
• regime