The result is, that you can see the problem itself rather than being blinded by the selection of arbitrary pieces of possible solutions that you happen to understand. This is a failure mode I see often when non STEMies try to process technical knowledge.
I'll admit to strong bias here. I see a lot of high-ignorance immodesty within the humanities on their own turf. This has been one of the rotting effects of pomo-ization of social science/humanities. Language games becoming a substitute for domain legwork.
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I agree with some of those critiques. But as someone with a foot on both sides of the divide, STEM has its own issues. A totalizing impulse, a faddish enthusiasm for the new, too much reverence for math (the queen of all language games), blindness to institution effects, etc.
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:D you may have a foot in both, but it's clear which leg you're putting more weight on
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