Frame, framing, frame of reference

Definition: The OC does not use "frame," "framing, or "frame of reference" as Special Terms. Those words have been pressed into service in certain fields such as psychology, sociology, and communication studies. The OC uses Context and Influtrol.

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As used herein, a Person's Frame of Reference refers to an existing pattern of Bodily Events within which a Person approaches Thinking or Conversing and Communicating with other people. For example, a ten-year-old boy (before puberty) and his 18-year-old brother (after puberty) have different Frames of Reference. A master French chef has a Frame of Reference different from that of a hungry cowboy. An army general surveying the battlefield from a hilltop has a different Frame of Reference than a private in a foxhole down below in the battlefield.

Note: Frame of Reference should not be confused with Influtrol or "framing" in a social science sense.

Also see: Circumstances and Context

(1) Conversing or (2) Communicating. One has Degrees of Certitude about a Subject or Topic one is thinking or Conversing about before one begins to think or Converse. Prior Degrees of Certitude constitute the Frame that one brings to the Subject or Topic. A Frame, in other words, is a necessary or unavoidable structure within which one thinks or speaks to another. For better or worse, one develops one's Certitude about a Subject or Topic because of the Frame you begin with which may lead to a new Frame, which may lead to another, and so on.

In the case of Communication where the parties are not in physical contact with one another,

For example in the first case, a Person may think about an Aspect of Reality in conformity with a given Social Order, not fully realizing that Reality is much larger than any given Social Order. In the second case, one, two or more parties to a Communication may be an Influtroler in which case the Frame he, she or they Communicate is intended to facilitate the Influtrol.

References - See Wikipedia article, Framing (social sciences)

Introduction Dan - Am I "framing" the reader's understanding of social fragmentation and cohesion by building this compendium-glossary this way instead of that way? My intention is that the reader will understand what I mean. He may reject my interpretation of the reality of social fragmentation, but first, I want him to understand what my understanding in fact is. So I frame my argument in a fashion that I imagine the reader will grasp. I do not want to confuse the reader. I am trying to be as explicit as I can be about my own motivations.

I am intentionally framing for a purpose I make explicit.

An Influtroler is also framing but disguises his intention.

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