problem-reframinglisted

# Problem Reframing **Problem shape:** effort is being spent on a question that is malformed — a false binary, a contradiction treated as a compromise, a metaphor mistaken for the mechanism, a dispute about words masquerading as a dispute about facts. The move: dissolve, restate, or invert the frame before solving anything. ## Relevant geniuses | Agent | Use when | |---|---| | [wittgenstein](../../agents/genius/wittgenstein.md) | the dispute is about how words are being used — audit the language game; some problems dissolve rather than resolve | | [nagarjuna](../../agents/genius/nagarjuna.md) | both sides of a binary feel wrong — run the tetralemma (true / false / both / neither) | | [aristotle](../../agents/genius/aristotle.md) | "why" questions conflated — separate the four causes; catalog the fallacies in play | | [midgley](../../agents/genius/midgley.md) | a metaphor (machine, war, market, brain) silently shapes the design — audit where it breaks down | | [leguin](../../agents/genius/leguin.md) | a trade-off is being denied — force the genuine cost onto the table; audit the narrative frame of the plan | | [eco](../../agents/genius/eco.md) | the artifact will be interpreted — design for the model reader; bound the open vs closed interpretations | | [bateson](../../agents/genius/bateson.md) | the conflict escalates symmetrically or the instructions double-bind — the pathology is in the interaction, not the parties | | [altshuller](../../agents/genius/altshuller.md) | imp