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So... What would you call them instead?
by james_s_tayler 7y ago
So... What would you call them instead?
- andrewflnr 7y agoI would probably try to find a more specific term for the specific idea I'm talking about rather than try to use one term for all of them. That said, "heuristic" is a good term for a lot of them. "Framework" is another one that came up in this thread.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoThe entire reason to call them "Mental Models" is to aid in their communication and discovery. There are many hueristics that are not mental models. There are many things that are frameworks that are not mental models. Labelling something a "mental model" as used in this context serves the purpose to communicate "here is an abstraction with unusually good power-to-weight ratio that you can leverage to aide your thinking/reasoning about situations that meet a given set of criteria". It's actually a very specific thing.