CRITERIA⤓ .txt 2026-07-17T155106.000 000000000018848 Time: c. 1940 to the present. This bound is narrower than the label and deliberately so. "Western" as a civilizational term would run from the Presocratics and would then admit everything and exclude nothing, which is not a criterion; what this folder actually holds is the technique literature that begins with wartime operations research and industrial engineering and continues through the postwar creativity, quality, and management movements. Ancient inheritance is admitted only where the modern procedure is the entry — Socratic questioning is here as an elicitation technique with a specified protocol, not as Plato.