{"id":"temporal-relational-availability","title":"Shared possibilities that do not meet in time","regions":["language-and-experience","collective-structure"],"question":"Can connection fail because potentially shared states are unavailable at the same time?","formulation":"Distinguish total incompatibility from a temporal failure of access to a potentially shared state; preserve how language changes when a shared reference is unavailable.","representations":[{"name":"Static similarity between participants","affords":"Identifies potentially shared states.","loses":"Can miss when those states are available.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"Time-indexed availability of shared states","affords":"Distinguishes incompatibility from missed temporal overlap.","loses":"Availability cannot be inferred from similarity alone.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"Potential connection can coexist with a present inability to connect.","challenge":"Can a representation preserve this distinction without defining one participant’s language as the norm?","development":"independent_branch","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-temporal-relational-availability"],"next_move":{"text":"Use fictional interactions with identical possible states but different timing; compare what static and temporal descriptions explain.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["Can connection fail because potentially shared states are unavailable at the same time?","Can a representation preserve this distinction without defining one participant’s language as the norm?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"c625055e2c1fbf6200b5e17cc6a38e28086bc0cfa3dfb94f19d260c0cd09d93c"}