MENTAL MODEL · M12501

General Code

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

The General Code is a classic of institutional history: tong means to link past and present, and dian means a systematic arrangement of laws and institutions. It organizes the record into nine domains, food and money, selection, offices, rites, music, military, penalties, prefectures, and frontiers. As a thinking model it supplies a historical reference frame, since sorting how institutions changed across those domains makes the evolution of any single policy legible.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

psychology

Reduce cognitive load

- Trace the institutions: follow a policy back through the domains it passed through. - Sort before judging: place each case in its proper domain before evaluating it. - Build the frame: assemble a reference system instead of collecting isolated precedents.

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Anchor fast decisions

Institutions change slowly and along paths, so arranging them by domain and era exposes the trajectory a current policy is continuing. A single rule read in isolation hides the direction that the sorted record makes visible.

MINIMUM ACTION

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Practice this model in one real situation:

Name the domain your question belongs to. 2. Collect how that domain was arranged in earlier periods. 3. Trace the line of change from the earliest arrangement to the present one. 4. Use the trajectory to judge what the next arrangement is likely to be.

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