http://trilema.com/2017/do-you-understand-how-the-world-works/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 21:25:12 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2017/do-you-understand-how-the-world-works/#comment-122517 Mircea Popescu Wed, 02 Aug 2017 18:53:40 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=71372#comment-122517 Bullshit. It is only true for children if they are beaten into a shape where they have the basics upon which to build conjectures. Then they can proceed to "form for themselves". Not before. Bullshit. It is only true for children if they are beaten into a shape where they have the basics upon which to build conjectures. Then they can proceed to "form for themselves". Not before.

]]> http://trilema.com/2017/do-you-understand-how-the-world-works/#comment-122516 samson vic Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:41:04 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=71372#comment-122516 In this way children gain confidence in the predictability of the world and thus their ability to anticipate it. This then, perhaps surprisingly, enables them to more readily accept, that the conjectures that form their personal model can and should be able to be disconfirmed. It is likely that this can only become true for children, if we let them form these conjectures themselves and not try to enforce our own conjectures. In this way children gain confidence in the predictability of the world and thus their ability to anticipate it. This then, perhaps surprisingly, enables them to more readily accept, that the conjectures that form their personal model can and should be able to be disconfirmed. It is likely that this can only become true for children, if we let them form these conjectures themselves and not try to enforce our own conjectures.

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