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# 19-02-01 Conceptual Decomposition

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

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*Source: [Original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14nxTfc9AEXw63K96fu4DTlFmcpGMw9XwSZaccTUAqpE/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076804000&usg=AOvVaw15wOz_rsmYP7G65CfZUJGo)*