A set of language patterns that focuses attention on how people delete, distort, generalize, limit or specify their realities. It provides a series of outcome specification questions useful for making communication more specific, recovering lost or unspecified information, and for loosening rigid patterns of thinking.
A powerful set of language patterns and questions from NLP that links language with sensory experience. Key questions to clarify and specify meaning
Not quite the actual model
a model of a model - in NLP it is a model of a language model
a model that represents other models
an explicit model of the constructs and rules needed to build specific models within a domain of interest
an ontology used by modelers
A model with a number of linguistic distinctions that identifies language patterns that obscure meaning in a communication through distortion, deletion and generalization. It includes specific challenges or questions by which the "ill-formed" language is reconnected to sensory experience and the deep structure. These meta-model challenges bring a person out of trance. Developed in 1975 by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
A model that includes types whose instances are also types. Meta-models are often used to specify other models. For example, the meta-model for a relational database system would specify the types ‘Table’, ‘Record’, and ‘Field’.
A meta-model describes the types of elements and associations which are used when constructing particular kinds of models.