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  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/prune-impossible-combinations-before-judging-attractive-ones",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0749",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Prune impossible combinations before judging attractive ones",
  "summary": "Remove contradictions first; preference can wait.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "Apply hard compatibility constraints to eliminate combinations that cannot coexist. Keep the rule for each exclusion visible. Only after structural contradictions are removed should the team compare attractiveness, cost or expected value among survivors.",
  "limits": [
    "Over-aggressive pruning can erase invention. Mark uncertain incompatibilities and revisit them when a new mechanism could resolve the conflict."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-creative-option-generation"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-3EC3B90CEFB779AA"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "General Morphological Analysis structures a multidimensional, often non-quantifiable problem space by defining parameters and investigating combinations and relationships among parameter states.",
      "source_id": "RS-3EC3B90CEFB779AA",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Morphological analysis structures a conceptual space; it is not a causal model and can still omit important dimensions or options.",
      "locator": "Abstract and method description"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A combinatorial option space is large enough that exhaustive comparison is noise."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Over-aggressive pruning can erase invention. Mark uncertain incompatibilities and revisit them when a new mechanism could resolve the conflict."
  ],
  "example": "An offline-only architecture cannot use a cloud-only transcription dependency; exclude that pair before debating interface preference.",
  "check": "Every eliminated combination has an explicit incompatibility rule rather than 'we don't like it.'",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-3EC3B90CEFB779AA",
      "title": "Problem structuring using computer-aided morphological analysis",
      "url": "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602177"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-2522F24FF1997E0F",
      "title": "Generate more distinct options before choosing one",
      "url": "/collections/generate-more-distinct-options-before-choosing-one"
    }
  ]
}