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/

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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”.

An introductory series of videos from past events can be watched at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2chIX3Hk5gHXf9bzxcjVxNA

CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬ https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
‪Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgxwR29_WY
Dec 16: Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIHsVIzGlw
Jan 13: The Inductive Attitude: A Moral Basis for Science and Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5dv4daAxL4

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