{
  "handle": "Farsimple",
  "gloss": "Explain by first laying out the complexity a quick account would blur, then building a simpler account that keeps it",
  "mechanism": "An explanation in two phases. The first lays out the distinctions, cases and exceptions that a quick simple account would blur, and may {{decompose}} the subject to do so. The second builds a simpler account in which each of them either survives or is named as set aside. The reader is shown both phases, and the final account is checked against the first.",
  "invariants": [
    "The first phase is shown to the reader, not only worked through by the explainer.",
    "Each distinction raised in the first phase either survives in the final account or is named there as set aside."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Complexity as display: the first phase adds difficulty that the final account never uses.",
    "Lost return: the explanation stops in the complex phase.",
    "Quiet drop: a distinction from the first phase vanishes from the final account without being named."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Reasoning"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "Lucence",
      "LeastToMost#942d"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T21:30:54+02:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Farsimple#mh:SHA-256:220993e41362dea99d41146c35b81e70e707f84c509b2271ae5e797f15bd0046",
  "sema_ref": "Farsimple#2209",
  "sema_stub": "2209",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "decompose": "sema:Decompose#mh:SHA-256:69942e7e0dcdc7781144da58c8f09b2e8a17c247be435dadf3325cb0d0bbb22b"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Reasoning",
  "used_by": {}
}