In the zone of the Solution space,
Reasons are transformed into Purposes...
...Set-downs refracted into Set-ups.

Purposes are Set-Downs (where going)

(The graphics indicate going towards an outcome, but one can Go toward or away from Outcomes)

The "What" of the problem may be Detail with only vague reference to time sequences, scope, connection. "How" fills in with some boundries, distinctions, inclusion/exclusion, series. "Why" explains Connections, possible cause and effect, equivalences... Reasons and Purposes may not become distinct until How and Why are clarified.

Today's Solutions are yesterday's Problems. (Todays results explain what, how and why of yesterday's happenings. Todays' results also are explained by tomorrow's (and yesterday's -?) happenings.) Thinking of a Problem in How and Why terms will bring up causes and past history. Reasons and Purposes, along with What, How and Why are all Structure. Solutions (Doing) are Function. That is why thinking of a Solution brings it more into the present. Self-Management (SDMP) provides more Function for the What, How, Why and points to more ways to move between these. Moving from Structure to Function and to Structure again enables you to move up a level on the Life Grid.

A particular Solution may be just one possible way to get the Outcome. Thinking of the Purposes towards which a Solution is directed takes it towards resulting or future Outcomes. Purposes are more general than the Outcomes focused upon. Once an Outcome is described, Purposes seem to point at it. Those same Purposes actually point towards an array of possible outcomes.

[Communications circles - affirm or appreciate something, describe your perception of what happened (new information), describe your internal response (including what you'e puzzled about), acknowledge own judgments (complaints), describe what you would like to see changed (practical as well as wishes, hopes dreams)... are mixtures of reasons and purposes designed for 2-person communications]

[You have this problem: What (how, why) does this explain for you? Does this problem that you have now explain anything for you? What (how, why) explains this for you? What explains this problem? ("explained by" and "explains" point differently. "Explained by" points to reasons or causes. "Explains" points to effects or emergent outcomes.]

What eminate from Problems might be Set-downs... - more likely that Set-Ups are Reasons (where coming from).
...Reasons that tend to define the space for a Solution.
Note how Reasons (Wants, Needs, Don't Wants) combine with Purposes to form Solution space.
Sometimes people distill their setdowns from past experience into criteria. Others simply describe the experiences. Either way - they express what has been laid down for the next experience.
(Some kind of transformation occurs to turn the Set-down into the Set-up - it may be limiting, exploratory, enhancing.)