Abstraction

[Dave Snowden]

• Abstraction enables Abductive Reasoning insight and reasoning.
  • At its simplest, this can be the use of a metaphor to get people to think about things differently
    • Metaphor-based games to break entrained thinking patterns
    • Archetypes (situational and persona)
    • Methods developed when people are in the Aporetic domain trying to make sense of the Present
      • See Aesthetic aporia
        
• SenseMaker® can be applied to gather narratives as Abductive acts of Knowing
  • When we capture the data in SenseMaker®, we can build abstraction into the signification and then use data analytics to present it to decision-makers in different and exciting ways
  • Metadata suggests connections that might not otherwise occur to people
  • Also used in decision-support applications to identify novel patterns