The identity–image gap · The diagnosis · Element

The credibility check

Why those who heard it did not believe it.

The part

What it is

Usually one of three: it contradicts their experience, it contradicts something they know about the category, or the source is not credible on that point.

Each has a different remedy and only the third is a communication problem.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.