Week 5 Case Review: The specificity test

Checking whether your case has crossed the line from fungible to specific provision, before you write it up for the position paper

22 March 2027

Before the session#

List what your case’s counterparty currently provides, then mark each item fungible (a substitute could deliver it about as well) or specific (a substitute couldn’t, without rebuilding years of shared context).

In the session#

The room checks each other’s fungible/specific splits for the classic error: mistaking recency for specificity. A provision someone hasn’t tested a substitute for isn’t automatically specific — it’s just untested.

Afterwards#

This split, plus the reliability rate from week 3 and the five dependency scores from week 4, is the raw material for the position paper due this week. Bring all three to the writing.