| Concepts | Methods | Stories | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Foundational ideas that explain what things are or how they relate. | Systematic approaches and techniques that explain how to do something. | Accounts that explain why things happen(ed) through context and perspective. |
| Query | WHAT | HOW | WHY (when/who/where) |
| Conveys | Propositional Knowing | Procedural Knowing | Perspectival Knowing |
| Function | Understanding | Power & Ability | Awareness |
| Imparts | Beliefs & Ideas | Skills & Techniques | Perspective & Experience |
| Realizes | Sense of Truth | Sense of Effectiveness | Sense of Presence |
| Cognate | Dianoia · διάνοια | Techne · τέχνη | Noesis · νόησις |
| Memory | Semantic | Procedural | Episodic |
| Domain | Content | Content (context) | Context (content) |
Participation
Activities and traditions that build meaning through embodied participation.
query
DO/BE
conveys
Participatory Knowing
function
Transformation
imparts
Affordances & Ways of Being
realizes
Sense of Belonging
cognate
Gnosis · γνῶσις
memory
The Self
domain
Context · Content
| Playgrounds | Projects | Practices | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Things I explore freely. | Things I'm working on. | Disciplines I return to. |
| Shape | Emergent, open-ended. | Finite. | Indefinite, cyclical. |
| Logic | Curiosity-driven improvisation. | Goal-directed execution. | Identity-shaping repetition. |
| Structure | Loosely connected or associative (graph, cluster). | Linear or hierarchical (steps, phases). | Rhythmic or scheduled (calendar, ritual). |
| Action | Wandering and playing. | Building or producing. | Returning and refining. |
| Mode | Lateral, intuitive, divergent. | Executive, linear, strategic. | Embodied, integrative, habitual. |
| Data | Fragments, relations, sources. | Status, timeline, tasks. | Frequency, duration, reflection. |
| Relation | Feeds practices and projects; receives overflow. | Engages practices; emerges from playgrounds. | Supports projects; rooted in playgrounds. |