Query on term "Mental Model" LO9495

Jim Michmerhuizen (jamzen@world.std.com)
Mon, 26 Aug 1996 21:41:26 -0400 (EDT)

Replying to LO9334 --

...and then if we go "subverbal", and inquire how long the *IDEA* might
have been lurking around the dark underbelly of professional discussions
before anyone thought to *NAME* it... well, that way madness lies. We
could chase it back to Plato. But it gets all flabby and useless.

To tell the truth, I *like* it for its concrete suggestion of a little
scale model of something chugging away in my mind. If it ever loses that
concreteness -- if it ever suffers death by abstraction or (what's even
worse) by formal definition -- we'll have to go find another term.

It's well to remember that in these domains *nothing* has a "literal"
meaning.

--
Regards
     Jim Michmerhuizen    jamzen@world.std.com
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