Meta Model ‘Deletions’: Unspecified Verbs
These are simply verbs that aren’t as specific or clear as you need them to be. They count as ‘Deletions‘ […]
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Language Patterns, Meta Model
Meta Model
Meta Model
Meta Model ‘Deletions’: Nominalisations
Why ‘Deletions’? ‘Deletions’ are where the speaker has left some information out. If that information is important, either because it’s
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Language Patterns, Meta Model
Meta Model ‘Generalisations’: Modal Operators of Possibility and Necessity
Previously in the series on Meta Model generalisations: Universal Quantifiers Modal What Now? Because the patterns in the Meta Model
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Meta Model, NLP applications, Questions
Meta Model ‘Generalisations’: Universal Quantifiers
We’re on to a new set of language patterns in NLP’s Meta Model – Generalisations! The previous category of patterns,
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Language Patterns, Meta Model, Presuppositions
Meta Model ‘Distortions’ (5): Presuppositions
The final ‘Distortion’ pattern in the Meta Model is ‘Presuppositions’. These are the implicit statements embedded in what people say
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Language Patterns, Meta Model
Meta Model ‘Distortions’ (4): Complex Equivalence
This continues the series on Meta Model ‘violations’ and the questions you can ask to investigate them. The series starts here.
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Language Patterns, Meta Model
Meta Model ‘Distortions’ (3): Cause and Effect
This continues the series on Meta Model ‘violations’ and the questions you can ask to investigate them. The series starts here
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Meta Model ‘Distortions’ (2): Lost Performatives
(Or ‘Value Judgements’ in Everyday English) This continues the series on Meta Model ‘violations’ and the questions you can ask
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Language Patterns, Meta Model, Questions
Meta Model ‘Distortions’ (1): Mind Reading
If you are doing a presentation to a prospective client, and the client says “I know you’re just trying to
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Language Patterns, Meta Model
The Origins of the Meta Model
In the next few articles we’ll explore the set of magic questions called the ‘Meta Model’, which help you to
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