How do formal teaching and everyday enactment inform one another without one standing in for the other?
Evidence status
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Authorized formulation
Doctrine
States what a community or institution teaches.
Valid claim: This formulation is documented and holds this status.
Direct answer
How do formal teaching and everyday enactment inform one another without one standing in for the other?
Mechanism and method
Sample each evidence stream independently.
Map agreements and gaps.
Limit generalization to the observed population.
What is measured
Community
Period
Practice or proposition
Comparison: Doctrine and lived practice
Official teaching is not a prevalence estimate.
Observed deviation is not automatically rejection.
Must not be read as: Neither an official document nor a vivid anecdote may represent every member of a tradition.
Limitations
Official teaching is not a prevalence estimate.
Observed deviation is not automatically rejection.
What this does not establish
Neither an official document nor a vivid anecdote may represent every member of a tradition.