Lumpers: assume things are the same unless proven distinct. Splitters: assume things are distinct unless proven the same. I'm 80% a splitter
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...spent way too many years confused about this because I'm better at spotting patterns than being excited about their existence...
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...patterns kinda depress and de-energize me. Non sequitur novelties buoy and energize me.
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lumping is not really the same as synthesizing, in fact it is defined as 'failed synthesis attempt' by Howard Gardner
all lumpy things are frankensteins. If it isn't a frankenstein it's a new new thing via destruction-creation of old things
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Splitters don't assume. Splitters have sufficient data. Lumpers don't. Split=Positive Hypothesis. Lump=Null Hypothesis. #sciencemethod
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clearly you haven't met many wild speculator splitters like me
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the problem with too much splitting is that it ultimately runs into Bradley's Regress-like situations, no?


