# Incompatible Harmonizations Are Evidence About the Reading They Harmonize ## Claim When several later sources propose different fixes to the same earlier text, what the fixes share is the problem — so the disagreement recovers the baseline. A redemption clause is only necessary if something was owed. <!-- atomicity: 1 idea ✓ --> ## Scope & conditions - A text-critical method that transfers to legal codes, standards, and specifications: later amendment is testimony about what earlier language was taken to mean. ## Links - [[A Claim That Proof-Texts Is Refuted By Reading The Rest Of The Source]] — extends; both recover meaning by widening the frame rather than narrowing it - [[A Tradition Consolidates Separate Figures and Reads the Composite Back Into Its Sources]] — contrasts; there the tradition adds, here it patches - [[3. Resources/MOCs/Faith & Theology MOC]] — a method for the MOC's biblical-interpretation thread