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Knowledge is paring away from a gestalt, not a building up into a whole. That's why science is reductive.
Our initial impressions are gestalts, generic wholes. As we get to know, we find out what's wrong with our impressions and remove those inaccuracies. A smaller body is indicative of greater understanding.
This came from pondering an assertion I made about a week ago: "I'm always wrong": and another one a night or two ago: "I know my interpretation was wrong, but it's all I have to work with."
I am correct in this perspective, I think. I have a bulging, shapeless mass in my mind, and to understand a thing, a person, an idea, whatever, I have to slice off the irrelevant bits until the conception matches reality, which never happens.
Okay. Enough philosophy for me tonight.
And now you know why science is hard.
Our initial impressions are gestalts, generic wholes. As we get to know, we find out what's wrong with our impressions and remove those inaccuracies. A smaller body is indicative of greater understanding.
This came from pondering an assertion I made about a week ago: "I'm always wrong": and another one a night or two ago: "I know my interpretation was wrong, but it's all I have to work with."
I am correct in this perspective, I think. I have a bulging, shapeless mass in my mind, and to understand a thing, a person, an idea, whatever, I have to slice off the irrelevant bits until the conception matches reality, which never happens.
Okay. Enough philosophy for me tonight.
And now you know why science is hard.