As names are organized into Lists and Lists subdivided in Classifications, what was strictly Structure begins to have Functional attributes.

What Details?
What Details to work?
Details about What?
What procedures?
What is the sequence of procedures?
What is the reason for the sequence of procedures?

What, How and Why are all Structure. The Self-Management Model 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.

What includes which, what, who, where, and when. Knowing only "What" will give elementary Details at a point In Time about Structure and may name certain Functions. It gives a static description of procedure. This is at the level of technology.

Example: "It gave me jolt when I first realized I was in love with him. My body was filled with a current of energy." Even though this example contains metaphoric images, it tells us mostly about what, when, where and who. The Whats listed include "me", "jolt", "in love", "him", "my body", "current of energy". The scope of the Whats is suggested but not limited (what else is there?). The beginnings of a sequence is suggested and the verbs in the sentences suggest connections.

"How" is information about the occurrence or existence of "whats" relative to each other in time and space (processes). Knowing "How" gives you the Scope of which processes are included, how they are similar or different, How they are grouped and sequenced, How a process Functions, What happens first, second and third. How also allows you to compare "Whats" at various points in time (Between Time). "How" can reveal the dynamics of a process with as much precision and detail as desired, but doesn't explain the process. This is at the level of methodology.

Example: "I wasn't paying much attention to how I felt, just going with the flow of my usual routine, when the realization hit me that I was in love with him. Then I noticed that I had been filled with a warm current of energy throughout the days since we had gotten together." What is included and excluded is now more clear. Sequences of events are presented to some degree, comparisons made with past events, but we would still be guessing why things happened as they do.

"Why" addresses What Connections exist between the "Whats", How they are connected
and Why. It reveals What reasons and principals are involved, How the principals are sequenced and the reasons operate, Why principals are what they are and why they Function as they do Through Time. This is at the level of epistomology.

Example: "I didn't think too much about this guy because of my history of failed love affairs. So I was just following my normal routine when, bam, I realized I wasn't feeling normal at all. I was in love with him. Until then it had been easy not to notice the warm current of energy that had been filling me." More complete sequences fill in connections. Some reasons are suggested as to Why things are happening. Many Whys are left out, however, such as Why this guy? Why past history has caused her not to think much about him? Why the sudden realization at that time?

McWhirter talks about the fractal nature of What-How-Why. That is, within each of these can be found to unfold another set of What-How-Why, as follows:
The What of What, the How of What, the Why of What;
then the What of How, the How of How, the Why of How;
finally the What of Why, the How of Why and the Why of Why.

I see Detail-Scope-Connection as not the same but as a complimentary facet of What-How-Why. Using a grid to juxtapose these two triplets may accomplish a quasi-fractal unfolding and expand one's attention to more of the meaning.

Because Whats may include references to components and to processes, which can be listed and classified, Sequences of Whats form. At this level the sequences are static, without reference to order, priority or time.

The scope of what is included.
What to include in the Scope?
What categories work best?
Where, when, who is included? Excluded?
What distinguishable groupings are included?

McWhirter talks about Theory in regard to Why. Why explains the working of things in the present, but also predicts how they will work in the future. At this level we may learn why certain details and not others are included.

McWhirter also includes Reasons and Purposes as part of Why. We may see the Details of Reasons and Purposes at this level.

How is the Scope determined?
Scope of the Hows
The sequences included in the Scope
How much, How many, How often...

Why does this Scope allow explanation? Prediction?

Why is are names, lists or classifications sequenced as they are? Do they, and why do they or do they not form a map?

How else could Hows be connected?
How would other connections work?

Why connected?
Why connect in this way versus other connections which are possible?
Connecting the various Whys.