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Book: Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution
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  1. Paul Watzlawick _ Change: Principles of Problem

    in order to be solved, a problem first of all has to be a problem. What we mean by this is that the translation of a vaguely stated problem into concrete terms permits the crucial separation of problems from pseudo-problems.
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  2. Paul Watzlawick _ Change: Principles of Problem

    Gear-shifting is thus a phenomenon of a higher logical type than giving gas, and it would be patently nonsensical to talk about the mechanics of complex gears in the language of the thermodynamics of fuel supply.
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  3. Paul Watzlawick _ Change: Principles of Problem

    Unfortunately, natural language often makes a clear distinction between member and class difficult.
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  4. Paul Watzlawick _ Change: Principles of Problem

    there is changeability in process, but invariance in outcome.
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  5. Paul Watzlawick _ Change: Principles of Problem

    Another property of a group is that one may combine its members in varying sequence, yet the outcome of the combination remains the same.
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  6. Paul Watzlawick _ Change: Principles of Problem

    and as long as the outcome of any combination of two or more members is itself a member of the group.
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  7. Paul Watzlawick _ Change: Principles of Problem

    In psychotherapy it is the myth of knowing this why as precondition for change which defeats its own purpose."
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