Intent

Whether I want it or not, I guess at the intention of a speaker behind his words, but I try to remember that those are my guesses, and not the speaker's intentions.

Those guesses become part of my mental model, and I use them to predict behaviour.
The first sketches are very rough ... for people I've interacted with only a few times, I use quick and standard labels, and I slowly improve my labels with detail (new data and guesses) about relevant things that --in my mental model-- make each individual different.

I try to remember that those labels don't describe or determine the individual.
They are not reality, but my view of reality.

I see it as some sort of scientific theory that explains the known facts, and is helpful to predict results, but may be proved wrong at any time by new data.

Fungus