Question
What is override inheritance?
Quick Answer
Sometimes a child needs to differ from its parent — explicit override is cleaner than implicit exception.
Override inheritance is a concept in personal epistemology: Sometimes a child needs to differ from its parent — explicit override is cleaner than implicit exception.
Example: You have a category called 'Morning Routines' with an inherited property: 'begins with exercise.' But your Sunday routine begins with slow reading and coffee. Instead of mentally noting the exception every time, you create an explicit override on the Sunday entry: 'begins with reading.' Now the exception is visible, documented, and won't corrupt your understanding of what 'Morning Routines' generally means.
This concept is part of Phase 14 (Hierarchy and Nesting) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for hierarchy and nesting.
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