Principlev1PR-348
When two people's schemas of the same situation diverge…
When two people's schemas of the same situation diverge, treat the divergence itself as information about complexity the territory contains that neither schema fully captured.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Meaning as Receiver Construction (meaning constructed by receivers using their models) and Schemas as Knowledge Organization Structures (schemas organize knowledge by specifying relationships). Different schemas produce different constructions of meaning; the divergence reveals what each schema filtered differently.