docs(provenance): soften 'guarantee' to 'property' for make() contract#214
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The make() reproducibility contract is framed at autopopulate.md:322 as 'a convention — observed by discipline, not enforced.' Calling it a 'guarantee' alongside the framework-enforced FK integrity quietly conflates the two. One-word swap: 'the same guarantee' -> 'the same property'. Consistent with the section title 'Lineage as a structural property'.
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LGTM. 'property' is the better word here; no accuracy concern.
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Small terminology tweak in
comparison-to-provenance-systems.md:41.The surrounding section — "Lineage as a structural property" — argues that lineage is FK-graph-shaped (framework-enforced). The make() reproducibility contract at
autopopulate.md:322, on the other hand, explicitly frames itself as "a convention — observed by discipline, not enforced."Calling both the same "guarantee" in one sentence quietly conflates FK integrity (a real framework guarantee) with the make() contract (an author-observed convention). Swap to "property" — thematically consistent with the section title, no overpromise.