PATTERN: Hierarchies of Scope
The scope of any given Purpose strongly conditions its character.
Purposes apply across a wide spectrum of intent.
We may wish to 'create a good society', or we may wish to 'wash this cup', or we may wish to 'collaborate on this funding application'.
These wishes, which can become purposes, are primarily distinguished through Hierarchy of Scope: we can see that the scope of the sweeping task is tightly bounded and immediately actionable, the scope of the funding application is manageable/buildable, but must be flexibly bounded as it develops, requires co-ordination across people, space, time resources, while the 'good society' purpose cannot be directly produced - could only ever be an emergent quality of a broad range of efforts.
Typically, in a given systemic context, there are few instances of emergent purposes/outcomes reliant on, and providing context for countable numbers of buildable purposes reliant on, and providing context for uncountable instances of actionable purposes.
There is more about Hierarchy of Scope here.
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