necessity-redundancy

Compare the function each occurrence performs rather than the words or topic. Repetition is redundant only when it adds no new relation, tension, transformation, evidence, or connection beyond what another section already provides.

Identify each candidate component, describe its architectural function, search the whole work for similar functions, then apply removal, absorption, merge, relocation, and compression tests before classifying it as necessary, useful, partially redundant, or redundant.

No. Recurrence is justified when the concept develops, changes scale, enters a new context, or returns with transformed meaning. Only repetition without additional structural or argumentative function counts as genuine redundancy.

Do not remove material when another section depends on it, when it establishes a distinction used later, when it performs a different function elsewhere, or when removal would erase a unique relation, tension, or transformation.

The analysis does not aim to shorten text and cannot judge cases with insufficient evidence, which are marked unresolved. It also avoids forcing decisions on asymmetric sections, since unequal length does not imply redundancy.