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Laura Cyckowski's picture

"getting it differently/moving/evolving"?

Thanks, your post was, for lack of a better word, "useful" in that it helped me visualize those ideas differently. To be abstract for a moment...

 

I agree that "getting it less wrong" can seem to imply that there is an end-goal, Truth to be reached. I used to think in terms of "getting it more right", to reach an endpoint.

I think that "getting it less wrong" also can imply a linearity in things, even if there is no pre-defined end-point, and inquiry/making up new "stories"/observations/etc. can continue indefinitely, and in the absence of Truth.

 

 

I guess visualizing it differently is better, in a way that emphasizes that from any given location there is more than "one way" (?/infinite ways?) to "get it less wrong", and the space for "exploration" is much more multi-dimensional.

 

 

 

 

Maybe the emphasis should be on change, i.e., to “help keep things moving/evolving”.

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