[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# DSRP are the 4 patterns of thinking. Every thought. Every time.

## Details

**Authors** Moehring, Scott

**Publisher** MOEHR BETTER (moehrbetter.com)

**Kind of work** article

**Discipline** Cognitive Science

**Secondary disciplines** Education

**Kind of engagement** public

**Applied** false

[Read it](https://www.moehrbetter.com/dsrp-are-the-4-patterns-of-thinking.html)

## In authors' words

### What they set out to do (purpose)

To persuade general readers that DSRP is worth learning and to give them enough of the theory, plus practice materials, to begin using it.

### How they did it (methods)

A self-published explainer page on a personal site. It opens with the author's account of encountering the Cabrera Research Lab on 23 April 2020, sets out the four patterns in one line each, then presents the structure as four patterns, eight elements, and three dynamics, which it labels DSRP-483. It states the meaning and learning equations, and links to a practice tool the author calls Thinkquery, downloadable posters, a short explainer film, blog posts, and two DSRP research papers hosted by the Cabrera Research Lab.

### What they found (results)

The page holds that thinking is the use of DSRP to organize information into meaning and that learning is a change in that meaning, expressed as meaning equals information plus thinking and learning equals the change in meaning across the eight elements. It names the three dynamics as equality, each pattern equal to its two elements; co-implication, one element existing entailing the other; and simultaneity, any element also being all the others at once. It states that learning DSRP is the most important thing anyone can learn.

## Commentary

### In short

Moehring restates DSRP at a level of detail unusual for a self-published explainer: not the four patterns alone but four patterns, eight elements, and the three dynamics of equality, co-implication, and simultaneity, which he labels DSRP-483. He also reproduces the meaning and learning equations without garbling either. The accuracy of the dynamics matters, because they are the part of the theory secondary accounts most often lose, and losing them is what produces the four-buckets and four-steps readings. The page is openly advocacy rather than analysis: it dates the author's encounter with the Cabrera Research Lab to April 2020, argues that learning the theory is the most important thing anyone can learn, and points readers to posters, a film, and a practice tool of his own making. It presents no evidence of its own and does not claim to, pointing instead to the Cabrera Research Lab's papers.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

**Added** 2026-10-10

**How to cite this** Moehring, Scott (n.d.). DSRP are the 4 patterns of thinking. Every thought. Every time.. MOEHR BETTER (moehrbetter.com).