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(clm-grf-008-01).","claims":["clm-grf-008-01"]}]},{"doc":"Findings","parent":"Doctrine findings","heading":"Theorizing is a family of modes, not a proposition-only pipeline","line":38,"claims":["clm-doc-003-01","clm-doc-003-02","clm-idx-022-01","clm-idx-022-02","clm-sur-025-01","clm-sur-025-02","clm-grf-003-01","clm-grf-005-01","clm-grf-005-02","clm-grf-006-01","clm-grf-006-02","clm-adv-004-01","clm-adv-004-02","clm-adv-006-01","clm-adv-006-02"],"passages":[{"text":"Organizational theorizing includes propositional, configurational, process, perspectival, metatheoretical, provocative, and critical forms with different aims, reasoning, and evaluative terms (clm-doc-003-01, clm-doc-003-02).","claims":["clm-doc-003-01","clm-doc-003-02"]},{"text":"The mode-specific methods retained here include disciplined imagination (clm-idx-022-01, clm-idx-022-02), problematization (clm-sur-025-01, clm-sur-025-02), configurational scoping/linking/naming (clm-grf-003-01), process-data strategies 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for formalizing, versioning, checking pre-empirical coherence, and deriving hypotheses, including movement from prose to IF–THEN statements and a directed graph (clm-mch2-012-01, clm-mch2-012-02).","claims":["clm-mch2-012-01","clm-mch2-012-02"]},{"text":"The FAIR-theory workflow adds implementation, documentation, version control, archiving, and metadata while remaining agnostic between natural-language and formal representations (clm-aut-001-01, clm-aut-001-02).","claims":["clm-aut-001-01","clm-aut-001-02"]},{"text":"Theory mapping supplies a visual representation of construct relations plus reusable templates (clm-aut-002-01, clm-aut-002-02).","claims":["clm-aut-002-01","clm-aut-002-02"]}]},{"doc":"Findings","parent":"Machinery findings","heading":"Generation machinery is promising but evidence-bounded","line":77,"claims":["clm-mch2-005-01","clm-mch2-005-02","clm-mch2-007-01","clm-mch2-008-01"],"passages":[{"text":"Asta documents literature-conditioned and parametric theory 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trade-offs (clm-ven-020-01, clm-ven-020-02); originality and utility with scope and prescience (clm-grf-008-01); and a creator-led social-work scale with nine domain-specific criteria (clm-mch2-006-01, clm-mch2-006-02).","claims":["clm-doc-013-01","clm-doc-013-02","clm-ven-020-01","clm-ven-020-02","clm-grf-008-01","clm-mch2-006-01","clm-mch2-006-02"]}]},{"doc":"Synthesis","parent":"What the landscape changes","heading":"Theory mode must be chosen before machinery","line":39,"claims":["clm-doc-003-01","clm-doc-003-02","clm-grf-003-01","clm-grf-005-01","clm-grf-005-02","clm-adv-004-01","clm-adv-004-02","clm-mch-003-01","clm-mch-003-02","clm-aut-007-01","clm-aut-007-02","clm-mch-001-01","clm-mch-002-01","clm-aut-005-01","clm-adv-006-01","clm-adv-006-02"],"passages":[{"text":"The retained doctrine recognizes propositional, configurational, process, perspectival, metatheoretical, provocative, and critical forms (clm-doc-003-01, 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