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Typically a field develops by a kind of “leap frog” alternation of technology and methodology. Usually some primitive technology, discovered by accident or intuition, starts the process. Then someone looks at several techniques and begins to generalize about them, describing some elements of similarity, usually using a metaphor to describe this understanding. If this generalization is a useful one, typically it indicates other technologies that could be developed using different processes, materials, or outcomes. These new techniques, and the knowledge that is learned as they are applied and tested, in turn suggest other methodologies—other ways of thinking about the technology. Methodology is at a higher, more general (logical) level of generalization than technology.
An evolving methodology/technology usually has very useful pieces that do not yet appear to fit together. It was a long time before physicists realized how light (and optics) could be described as a part of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum, and they are still seeking an understanding of how gravity and electromagnetics are related.
In NLP there are a number of different models: anchoring, reframing, rep. systems, strategies, submodalities, “parts,” perceptual positions, etc., and it is seldom clear for instance exactly what submodalities make up a part, where a “part” appears in a strategy sequence, or how reframing can be understood as anchoring. As we make progress in refining our understandings, these relations will become clearer.
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