Dan Olsen's term for naming a specific solution inside what is presented as a problem statement — e.g., writing "I don't want to walk" instead of "I need to travel short distances." The polluted phrasing smuggles in an implicit solution and forecloses other ways of meeting the actual need, corrupting problem-space exercises like the Benefit Ladder or the User Story 'So I Can' Template. The fix is to restate the problem at the benefit/need level and check that multiple, meaningfully different solutions could satisfy it.