Forest of Ignorance
What must I clarify to continue?
Try to explain something. Notice where the explanation fails. Follow the questions it exposes, then return with what you can now say.
Questions, detours, and the understanding that survives.
Learning in progress
Process
A record of how understanding changes.
Sometimes an explanation exposes a question. Sometimes an observation calls for a mechanism. Sometimes a belief gives way, and other things must change with it.
Black-Box Autopsy
What process produced this?
Start with a behaviour or result you cannot account for. Look inside, propose a mechanism, and test what it explains.
Observations, competing explanations, and the checks between them.
Neurath’s Ship
What else does this change?
When a belief gives way, trace what it was holding up. Revisit the explanations and decisions that depended on it, and record what needs repair.
Changed commitments and their consequences.
The framework behind this practice ↗These are movements through an inquiry. Philosophy, experiments, and modeling are approaches to it. One encounter can move through all three.
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