The Distinctions Rule
Every idea or thing has an "other". We use boundaries to distinguish between ideas and things. Each distinction has two elements: identity and other.
Making distinctions help us to define 'wicked problems'.
- What is the issue? What isn't the issue?
- What is in scope for this data analysis project? Out of scope?
- What things do I see? What things to I not see?
Making Distinctions
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it were so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Through the Looking Glass
- How would you distinguish between Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
- How would you compare and contrast the two Tweedles?
- Is a Tweedle excluded?... Tweedledora, perhaps?