Mistake Mystique in Learning and in Life @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

Our comprehensivity engages us to broadly and deeply understand our worlds and its peoples. After collecting a huge inventory of knowledge from Humanity's traditions of inquiry and action, from our vast cultural heritage, and from our communicated experiences, we are faced with the prospect of trying to make sense of it all. To address this challenge we need new epistemic virtues, criteria for reliable, dependable, or advantageous knowledge.

We will explore how we might get assistance for this effort from R. Buckminster Fuller's delightful 1977 essay "Mistake Mystique" which you can read at https://app.box.com/embed/preview/u5vrvkmxuz832wz1b3qe5ryns8gabtqg

Then we will look at Stuart Firestein's ideas in his 2012 book "Ignorance: How It Drives Science" to see how it might resonate with Bucky's ideas to further help us see into the task of furthering our comprehensivity.

I have organized my thoughts on this in the following short essay which will form my rough notes for our exploration at this event:
https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2021/02/mistake-mystique-in-learning-and-in-life/

Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

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