01 / Orientation
A system is not an observation. A model is not a claim.
Working proposition — open to challenge, refinement and revision.
Orientation
OBSERVE → RELATE → TEST → REVISE
The proposition
Keep the
moves visible.
We often move too quickly from a visible event to an explanation, then from an explanation to a conclusion. Symbiain begins by separating these moves. A system is the arrangement we are trying to understand; an observation is a dated, attributable trace within it; a model is a provisional simplification; a claim is what we are prepared to say on the available evidence.
A practical promptWhich parts of your current account are directly observed, which are inferred, and which are only assumed?
Boundary
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