Climbing down metaphor
He read the book in 2013 and wrote, "I'm surprised someone else thought the same way." Facebook
I wrote about climbing up and down metaphor in a book I wrote in 2017, but completely forgot about this book
If you have room, you may want to reread it and add to the bibliography with footnotes, etc.
- I was not inspired by this book, so there's no ethical problem if I don't add to it.
- It's just an opportunity for [Comparing similarities is a new way to learn.
2018-10-28 - I opened a book on the subject of sectionalism, so I looked this up while I was at it.
- p.209
- Hatamura believes that design is "[cite
- The means of "putting context" is "group together under a common concept" and "select the concept you want to use."
- The above tree can be created by working with common concepts.
- Hatamura's unique expression "grouping by common concept" seems to me to refer to the same thing as grouping in the KJ method or the "Stack boxes on top." metaphor in my book.
- How it differs from how I use it.
- Hatamura is in the "contextualizing" phase, which is the phase of creating something, and in order to design a way to create it, he first asks, "Can we do it this way? If the answer is "no," he goes up to a higher concept and changes it to "another way.
- This representation makes it look like there is a fixed tree first and then a trial and error process according to it.
- In my expression, after the practice of trial and error, there is a phase of gathering new information
- And then after that, after going through the box-stacking phase of abstraction, we get to the practice phase again.
- The tree itself is updated during the stacking phase.
- Newly observed facts may reveal errors in your previously held tree
- So the tree does not grow unilaterally, but branches can break off.
- Related: Diagram of the updated model of how engineers learn.
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