Does questioning what you're doing and why result in a better overall product? I would say yes.
concrete example that happened: "what if we make this x > 1 [in this formalism that doesn't allow x to be 1 because it's a probability]"
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makes little sense to the informed mind, right? but also, questioning the formalism in the first place is important
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without the humanities people, the discussions would certainly have been less interesting and it'd have been a mostly math seminar
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