• The Intellectual Production of Engineers, p. 197 Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling.
  • In a nutshell, “Use only questions that bring in as few preconceived notions as possible.
  • To put it more precisely, the method is to “elicit information by asking questions that do not bring in preconceptions, to focus on sensations and metaphors rather than abstract concepts, to dig deeper and create symbols, and to ask about the relationship between these symbols.
    • It’s a highly abstract description…

Good book: Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling. - Five basic questions - What it looks like - What else is there? - Where is it and where is it located? - what sort of - Question 9. In addition to the five questions - Where it comes from. - What happens then. - What happens shortly before that? - What happens next.

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Notation shaking: Clean Language, Symbolic Modelling, symbolic modeling.


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