Tag: Possibility

• August 17, 2012

  Art of Inquiry, Chapter 2: Iterations

  Excerpt from The Art of Inquiry, Chapter 2. * 2.3. Iterations Let’s turn to the second claim about ignorance. Recall: 2. I don’t really know what a suitable answer would be or, quite possibly, would look like (insight into ignorance); What does it mean to ‘not really know’ what a suitable answer would be? In some…
• August 1, 2012

  Confronting our thinking in general

  I want to say that the focus of my life is on teaching the art of inquiry. Yesterday, I said that one of the aims of a good inquiry is to disabuse us of our ignorance. To be humbled in this manner is to enter into a time of exceptional confusion. Can anything interesting be said of…
• July 25, 2012

  On resilience and postulates

  Living by making postulates has helped me, even in the darker moments, not to fall into despair. Individuals in failing marriages despair that their lives could go otherwise. Institutions in free fall have lost the capacity to wonder whether they could be organized in some other, more robust fashion. Despair marks a defect in logic…