19-02-01 Conceptual Decomposition
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Leading Questions for Conceptual Decomposition:
- What are all of the different ways in which the concept is used?
- Get 5-6 examples so that there’s enough data to power the rest of this.
- What other valuable conceptual schemes are we pushed off of?
- What implicit assumptions underlie the concept?
- Which of those assumptions are most often wrong?
- How is the way we use the concept misleading?
- What is insufficient about the concept?
- What gives the concept its value? What is hard to explain without it?
- What are many examples of the concept, and how to they differ from one another? What is truly invariant across them?
- Is the concept part of a larger conceptual scheme? What concepts does it block, or support?
- What is the simplest possible version of the concept? The most complex version?
- What are all of the definitions that exist?
- What is the concept often conflated with?
- What major assumptions does applying or using the concept make? When do these assumptions differ from reality?
- What are the differences between the concept in its breath and the particulars of its instantiation?
Source: Original Google Doc