image In “The Intellectual Production of Engineers,” he used the metaphor “[Stack boxes on top.

  • 箱を上に積む.icon
  • Various terms are used to refer to concepts, such as abstraction, creating models (modelling (e.g. a system, etc.)), Finding Patterns, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
    • These words are Labeling for experience, so people who haven’t experienced it won’t get it.
    • I know it’s impossible, but I’m forcing myself to explain it in words.
    • 上に積む.icon]The concept of [[piling on.icons can only be acquired by water piling on.icons.

A more detailed expression is Cumulative effect of ideas.

  • 発想の累積効果.icon

This “lower box” is first described in the storyline of the engineer’s intellectual production techniques as being obtained through “information gathering”


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