AH, THE THINGS YOU HAVE LEFT OUT!

The simplest facet of the Meta-Model is deletions. Listen to anyone speaking and they regularly and consistently leave things out. Critical things! Often, they know what they mean and they think they have mentioned it when actually they have not. This is where you have to ask the “specifically who, when, where, how, etc.” questions. Now the good thing about deletions is that all natural speakers of a language has an intuitive sense that something is left out.

“He rejected my proposal?” Who are you talking about? “She just will not cooperate.” Who specifically are you referring to? “He’s rejected the proposal three times.” How specifically did he reject it? “She’s much smarter than John.” What standard are you using for ‘smarter?’ “He sarcastically smiled and said nothing.” In what way was his smile ‘sarcastic?’