Model-weaving with words

Building or learning a new model (such as Rosen’s model of modeling or Gendlin’s process model), you first throw a line across (like an orbweaving spider) from your current standpoint to the new one, and then carry terms across this bridge from the old model to the new, one or a few at a time. (Writing consolidates this process, as anyone who has tried it can testify.) This changes the meanings of terms you were using before but are now using for the new model, which becomes the implicit context of your habitual usage of those terms you carried across to it.

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