MENTAL MODEL · M7065

Unalterable Doctrine

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

A Chinese phrase in which the character for carve originally meant to erase, so an unalterable doctrine is one so correct that nothing can be cut away. Its core proposition is that conclusions differ in stability, so trust should be allocated by grade and tentative findings should stay falsifiable and open to revision. The qualifier is that declaring something final too early closes the door on correction.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Reduce cognitive load

- Stability grading: sort what you know into theorems, well-evidenced findings, and tentative hypotheses. - Trust matching: reuse high-stability conclusions freely and mark low-stability ones as pending. - Finality skepticism: question any claim of being beyond revision and ask how strong the evidence really is.

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Anchor fast decisions

Knowledge varies in how much of it survives a change in assumptions: some conclusions depend on definitions and hold everywhere, while others depend on conditions that later turn out to be local. Grading by stability lets effort and reliance be allocated accordingly, and keeping tentative conclusions in falsifiable form preserves the path by which they can be corrected.

MINIMUM ACTION

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Practice this model in one real situation:

Sort conclusions you rely on by how stable they are. 2. Reuse the stable ones and label the unstable ones as unverified. 3. Question claims of finality by asking how strong the evidence is. 4. Revise the grade upward or downward as new evidence arrives.

Check to track your progress (stored locally)

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