Practice question · Multiple choice
Why is a dossier assembled as the work proceeds different in kind from one assembled at the end?
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- Ask what evidence exists at the end for a direction that was tried and dropped.
- A reconstruction records what survived, not what was decided.
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D. Only the first records decisions, including the routes that were abandoned
Why
Because a dossier made afterwards is a reconstruction: it contains what survived, arranged in the order that now seems sensible, with the abandoned routes missing entirely. Assembled as you go, it records decisions, and a failed direction can only be shown to have been worth taking if there is evidence it was taken.
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