No Unwobbling Pivots? |
Any given understanding is a distinctive material state of the brain States of the brain are influenceable by
All brains are constantly changing All understandings are empirically rooted, derive from past events (depend on inductive processes) |
Strengths and limitations of science (more generally, of empirically/inductively derived understanding)
A traditional perspective | A loopy story telling perspective |
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Science as body of facts established by specialized fact-generating people and process
Science as successive approximations to Truth
| Science as process of getting it less wrong, potentially usable by and contributed to by everyone
Science as ongoing story telling and story revision: repeated making of observations, interpreting and summarizing observations, making new observations, making new summaries ... individually and collectively Science as skepticism, a style of inquiry that can be used for anything, one which everybody is equipped to to/can get better at/be further empowered by, and contribute to - a way of making sense of what is but even more of exploring what might yet be |
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On to story ...