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claim:visible-state-is-preferable-to-hidden-state-system-state-should-be-user-accessibleVisible state is preferable to hidden state; system state should be user-accessible.
Source paper
extracted_from(2005) · Wirth, Niklaus · Gutknecht, Jürg
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- Cross-scale frameworks linking spatial patterns, diagrams, and simplicity as expressions of care in design.
- Systems prioritizing visible program state and modular component composition over hidden complexity, exemplified by Oberon (1986-1989) and Fruit toolkit approaches.
- Visible state over hidden statemembers_ofUI/system design principle: all state should be explicit, accessible, and parameterized.
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- Design philosophy that user-awareness of system state reduces errors and confusion; visible global variables preferable to opaque ones.
- Foundational assumption for the pattern language.
- Predictive claim about the automatic spatial output of living process
- We hypothesize that group (b) hidden states store a representation of the statement's truthhypothesis0.729Motivating hypothesis driving the remainder of the paper's analysis after patching localization
- Foundational claim derived from the Free Energy Principle, setting up self-evidencing.
- Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
- Opening sentence defining self-evidencing.