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Concepts are cognitive structures that give coherent account of immediate consequences in complex systems

Jackson's core assertion about the role of concepts as explanatory structures bridging action and consequence

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Towards a theory of conceptual design for software

(2015) · Jackson, Daniel

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Cross-scale frameworks linking spatial patterns, diagrams, and simplicity as expressions of care in design.
Holistic information structure and relational wholeness
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Framework treating wholes as primary with parts defined through relationships; emphasizes information preservation through structure-preserving transformations and distributed emergence of organized systems.

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Central entity of Jackson's framework: a structure invented to give coherent account of immediate consequences of actions; the building block of software design

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Jackson's operational definition of a software concept.
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Operational definition of concept.
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Perception And Cognitionconcepts/cognitive/perception-and-cognition.md0.790
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Reservoir Computingframeworks/reservoir-computing.md0.786
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