See A Mentoring Course on Smalltalk and z7527 – Appendix A — Design distinctions behind Smalltalk
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**Claim.** Valloud argues that *Laws of Form* plausibly influenced Smalltalk’s conceptual framing: “distinctions”, “forms”, and the idea that naming is an *act* that changes what is available to thought and computation. **Why it matters (course context).** This appendix is not “history trivia”; it is a design lens: treat Smalltalk as a machine for **drawing distinctions cheaply**, then **naming** them so behavior can be mounted and recombined.