View source for Key Definitions used in Dialogic Design Science

The following eight terminological definitions are inferred from and are complementary with the seven [[Foundational Axioms of Dialogic Design Science]].

These definitions establish the foundational language of the science, and are evolving in accordance with the [[Domain of Science Model]] (DOSM) of [[John N. Warfield]]:

====Dialogue====
The engagement of observers/stakeholders in discovering meaning, understanding, wisdom, and actions for designing their social systems by means of structured inquiry in a "colaboratory of democracy."
Conscious Evolution: The engagement of observers/stakeholders in a colaboratory for the purpose of creating their ideal futures.

====Future====
The state of a social system that is significantly different from the state obtained by extrapolating past and present trends.

====Triggering question====
A prompt framed by a colaboratory Design Management Team (DMT), in collaboration with the sponsor, for the purpose of enabling observers/stakeholders of the social system to construct high quality observations.

====Elemental Observation====
The succinct and content-specific observation by an observer/stakeholder in response to a triggering question during a [[Co-Laboratory]].

====Third Phase Science====
All inquiry actions that aim to support observers/stakeholders in constructing high quality observations that make possible the design and implementation of action plans for the conscious evolution of a social system (for an elaboration of the three Phases of science please see the response to a question below).

====Truth====The convergence of the alternative realities (or pluralities) of a group of stakeholders participating in a colaboratory to a consensual, ephemeral, and language-sensitive snapshot of the complex situation they are confronting. This time-and-space-specific snapshot is subject to evolutionary learning by iteration.
Problem statement:The appreciation by an observer/stakeholder of the dissonance between his/her belief of "what ought to be" and the observation of "what is." These statements of stakeholders with diverse perspectives and life-experiences are value-based and language-sensitive.

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