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Why this is here
A11 made it its “leading recommendation, particularly because of Luria”: the epistemic/technical distinction with its two-way conversion is the owner’s realization/constraint recursion in experimental practice, and the role-switching of a relation type in luria (instrument, then object of inquiry, then instrument again). It bears on CLAIM-476 and CLAIM-477. A13 §7 returned to it.