{"id":"meaning-beyond-a-symbolic-map","title":"How a symbolic map becomes meaningful","regions":["language-and-experience","representation"],"question":"How does a symbolic map acquire lived or operational meaning?","formulation":"A symbolic account can specify qualities and relations while practiced interpretation, imagery, or experience supplies how those relations are understood. A definition is proposed as a revisable boundary around possible cases.","representations":[{"name":"A definition and relation map","affords":"Gives an inspectable structure.","loses":"May not provide the practical ability to recognize a case.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"Examples, imagery, and practiced discrimination","affords":"Develops the use of a concept.","loses":"Can remain difficult to communicate or expose to criticism.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"Giving someone a map and enabling them to use it are different achievements.","challenge":"What additional encounter lets a reader apply a concept they could previously only repeat?","development":"independent_branch","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-meaning-beyond-a-symbolic-map"],"next_move":{"text":"Compare definition-only instruction with contrasted cases, testing novel examples and requiring explanations of exceptions.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["How does a symbolic map acquire lived or operational meaning?","What additional encounter lets a reader apply a concept they could previously only repeat?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"efa27b4a42b8aaaeb2dd038a1b9adfa80197a97703e5c036def441c0b299505f"}