Tools for Comprehensivity: Ambiguity, Contradiction, & Paradox @ComprehensivistW

As the practice of comprehensive learning integrates more and more knowing from more and more traditions of learning, we are increasingly likely to consider ideas that are incompatible with other ideas. Accommodating these situations of ambiguity, contradiction, or paradox may seem challenging for the aspiring comprehensivist, one who aspires to understand it all and each other. We will try to turn lemons into lemonade and see the challenge of ambiguity as a profound tool for our comprehensive learning.

In particular, this event will explore the way to thinking about ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox developed by William Byers in the 2007 book "How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics". To learn more about this approach read my essay summarizing his thesis and its application to comprehensive learning at https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2022/02/tools-for-comprehensivity-ambiguity-contradiction-and-paradox/

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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”.

The first, introductory, event from "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" can be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwTy6pGkNA

The full archive of videos from the series can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2cgfSPqwbnXu8e3Lcq7W8w7

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

To see all forthcoming "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" events, look at the Wednesday events on the "52 Living Ideas" calendar: https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/calendar/

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
‪Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere http://y2u.be/ixgxwR29_WY

52 Living Ideas records Comprehensivist Wednesdays events and posts them on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer. Watch all their past Meetups at: https://www.youtube.com/c/52LivingIdeas?sub_confirmation=1