"When we have the answer, we tend to forget the paths that either failed or were incomplete on our way to it."
3/13/12
The Jeopardy convention - finding the right question
"If the right question is asked and understood, then the answer is readily apparent if the data that confirms or denies it is accessible. In effect, the answers are all out there, we need only craft the right question. Scientific interpretation of data is but a process of question refinement and this can be generalized to all forms of 'interpretation.' Contrary to the common idea that interpretation is some posterior act.
"When we have the answer, we tend to forget the paths that either failed or were incomplete on our way to it."
"When we have the answer, we tend to forget the paths that either failed or were incomplete on our way to it."
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A Setting for a Poem "Denial" Beloved by the Greek People by the Nobel Prize Winning Poet Giorgos Seferis http://www.youtube.c... -
I have left this formatting as is for obvious reasons. From a longer essay by Gary Moore Derrida on Peirce In the second c...
