Concept handles, after Alexander

When you see things that others don’t yet perceive, sharing your vision requires finding a way to get others to re-create those things in their own heads. A mathematical definition serves this purpose. It provides detailed instructions allowing others, starting with things they are already able to see, to mentally construct those new things.

That process gives an identity. In making a distinction, some representation is required, whether simply mental, or more concretely as with gesture, speech, artistic portrayal, or writing. For instance, naming both makes a distinction and creates a representation. Naming, classification, and abstraction are processes of boundary drawing; they are r

Naming is the art of describing a collection of ideas in an accessible and memorable way.