Concept · Glossary
Query
Understand query in ordinary language first. The exact definition and manuscript source follow below.
In ordinary words
The explicit or implicit question, task, need, or threat that shapes what the system searches for and treats as relevant.
What this does not prove
Use this as a handle for noticing a pattern, not as a label that settles a person or event.
The four questions are simple enough to remember and difficult enough to be worth asking.
Orientation: What problem am I currently trying to solve?
Morgan is not only trying to interpret the message. Morgan is trying to prove decisiveness. That hidden task changes the whole render.
Selection: What entered attention, and what did not?
The word today entered. The word approved entered. The possibility of a missing referent did not. Neither did the fact that the executive often dictates messages between meetings and assumes context other people do not have.
Weighting: What is carrying more force than the present evidence alone would justify?
The old label cautious is heavy. So is Friday urgency. So is the authority of the sender.