Meta Model Patterns Flashcards
Mindreading
Every statement is a claim to knowledge. The speaker must have some way of knowing
Any claim to knowledge is mind reading
Examples :
I think he loves me
Jesus was a real guy, I know what he did;
You guys don’t know
Founding fathers of US, saw religion as a good thing
We want to know what that is, as it affects their entire frame of reference …
So we ask : How do you know?
By asking : How do you know? We discover : HOW they think the way they do … and open the door into their model of the world
Lost Performative
Your brain deletes, distorts and generalizes. It cuts out bits that it considers irrelevant which can create a kind of “free floating” reality that is not grounded in the now
Therefore, when appropriate, we want to tie down
1. Who said it
2. When they said it
3. Under what conditions they said it
In summary, the lost performer refers to WHO is making the EVALUVATION
Eg: This is terrible. Terrible is the evaluvation. Who is making this evaluvation is lost here
So our questions here are :
1. Who says?
2. According to whom?
Universal Quantifiers
Quantifier is a linguistic element that specifies the quantity or frequency of an action, state, or event
Examples :
1. Q : Some birds migrate south for the winter.
UQ : Every bird migrates south for the winter
2. Q : Most of the houses on the street were painted blue
UQ : All the houses were painted blue
3. Q : A few clouds dotted the sky
UQ : Each cloud dotted the sky
In addition to who says something, you also need to tie down the scope
Linguistic quantifiers do this for us, examples are : all, every, never, nobody, everybody, just, one thing, sometimes, occasionlly, etc
All emotions happen only in the present.
The idea here is that the experience is universal across all time and not tied to any circumstance. If there was to be one single counter example, the statement would not be valid
If we don’t hear a quantifier from the speaker, some sort of quantification then there is an INFERRED UNIVERSALITY to what they say. The body-mind tends to generalize this scope free statements AS IF they apply across all time
Example : Women hate men. Inferred -> All women hate men
We need to find just one counter example to challenge what they have said and that would cause them to reframe what they have said
Modal Operators
Modal operators refer to linguistic cues or words that individuals use to represent their internal modalities or modes of thinking. These modalities can include beliefs, desires, capabilities, and constraints
We have several different types of modal operators:
-> Possibility : Can, can’t, could
-> Necessity(Pushed towards) : Should, Shouldn’t, aren’t able to
-> Desire(Pulled towards) : Want, wish for, need, etc
Modal operators defines the edge or boundries that someone’s map goes to.
Therefore to challenge it we have several options:
-> Who says?
-> What stops you?
-> What would happen if you did/could?
-> Challenge the universality of the statement
Cause-Effect
Every statement that someone makes contains some form of cause/effect narrative, either overtly expressed or reserved behind the statement. Pattern : This CAUSES That
Direct example would be: “My mum is afraid of dogs BECAUSE she was bitten by a vicious dog as a child”
Indirect example: “People are lazy”
The causal narrative behind that statement would be “my boss is lazy, my friends are lazy, I’m lazy THEREFORE … people are lazy”
The pattern is : X(Number of reference experiences) Causes Y Effect
By understanding the cause-effect structures that drive the statement, we can identify KEY LEVERAGE POINTS to help the speaker discover better ways to think about things
Nominalization
Any verb that has been turned into a thing
Wheelbarrow test
Action words that are turned into nouns allow the brain to “freeze” the process and can be problematic when they keep people stuck or treating an activity as a noun
Examples : Freedom, Leadership, Relationship, Motivation, Love, etc
Our goal is to restore the verb form, to unfreeze the frozen process expressed
We do by asking: How would you know you were X? X being the nominalization word they used
Complex Equivalents
We are looking to understand how a person comes to make a specific meaning between a specific word and their experience of the world around them
Basically specific experience -> Meaning; Pattern : This MEANS That
People often make a list, which will consist of few sensory specifics and nominalizations
Nominalizations define the pieces, complex equivalents show you HOW the pieces come together to mean ONE thing
To identify how they have equated several things to ONE meaning we ask : What has to happen in order for X to occur? X being the complex equivalent word they use
How specific does A,B,C equate to Z
Specifically listen for nominalizations
Example:
This is a lovely day
What do you notice specifically that makes the day lovely
-> Sunshine
-> Cool breeze
-> People walking around and are happy
-> Ducks are peacefully waiting to be fed
Predicates
Predicate words refer to the qualitative aspects of language
3 classes of predicate words : Sensory, temporal(time) and spatial(space).
Each have their own qualitative properties that affect how the listener of them will represent your words
Mastery of predicate language allows you to very precisely influence and effect the kind of representations your listeners will make
Sensory predicates : Qualitative words that affect the senses. Examples include : Look, see, clear, crisp, loud, bang, yell, feel, touch, warmth, etc
Spatial predicates : Qualitative words that affect relative references of space. Examples include : over there, around the side, in front of you, behind, over, under, beneath, etc
Temporal predicates : Qualitative words that affect relative references of time. Examples include : Before, yesterday, now, next, later, in the future, etc
Unspecified Referenital index
Here we are looking to identify who is speaking?
So if someone says: he, she, they, it
And don’t know who is being referred to we ask : Who?
Comparative deletion
Every single evaluvation that someone makes is made from a comparison
When we seek to understand the comparative deletion we are looking to understand what is the comparison that is being made
Examples : Better than, worse than, best, alright, good, great, etc
To identify the comparison we ask : Compared to what?
Non-referring noun
Referes to a category of object eg dogs, woman, men, consultants, priests, etc
To identify who is the object class refers to, we ask: Who specifically?
Unspecified Verbs
Every verb is relatively unspecified
To get a greater level of specificity we ask : How specifically?
Presupposition
Presuppositions are beliefs or assumptions that we take for granted as true
Presuppositions are the most powerful of the language patterns, when used by a communicator who presupposes what she doesn’t want to have questioned
A general principle is to give the person lots of choices, and yet have all of the choices presuppose the response you want
In the sentence “Jack ate the food” it is presupposed that “Jack” and “food” exist. If you negate the sentence and say “No, Jack didn’t eat the food” the fact that Jack and the food exist is still not questioned.
