What matters is not hard vs soft science, or analytic vs Continental philosophy. It's whether you care enough to figure out what's going on.
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Cargo cult research is how everyone starts. Imitation is the only way, because so much knowledge is tacit; teachers can't spell it out.
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Sometimes you can get beyond empty ritual by understanding principles and functions (http://approachingaro.org/principles-and-functions …)...
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... but often key principles of a field, and the functions of its methods, are ineffable or simply unknown.
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Professional mathematicians cannot tell you what mathematics is; math professors who can say anything about how to do it are rare.
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There is no substitute for making contact with reality, and ultimately no method for it. In fact, all methods separate you from it.
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@Meaningness So then how do you make contact with reality? "No method" sounds like "impossible."1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GrumplessGrinch Well, there’s heuristics that empirically make it more likely that you will come into contact with reality.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@GrumplessGrinch I’m hoping to write about that someday—these tweets are based on draft of a first post in a series about such heuristics.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GrumplessGrinch Random example: work outside the field you learned. Most breakthroughs come from outsiders crossing discipline boundaries.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@GrumplessGrinch Any answer to "how do you" would be a method...
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