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generativity

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 9:15am.

Maybe the idea you're looking for is that science (indeed inquiry in general) is as much about creating things never before seen as it is about uncovering what is? And that an effective method for doing so is to encourage different stories to bump up against one another in ways that generate new stories? Science is most generative when it has the most different stories bumping against one another and therefore there should be more different kinds of people involved in science?

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