Welcome to another instalment in Maxi’s Toolkit. In the toolkit I outline a number of epistemological techniques — or ‘epitechs’, tools for thinking — that will be of some interest to the discerning digital humanist in navigating a world of ever-increasing complexity.
In a better-, though more homogeneously, educated world where the average means to the expression of intelligence is (happily) increasing, the number of ways and instances in which intelligence can be misused is increasing in direct proportion. From the bottom to the top of the intellectual totem pole, opportunities for mistaken, indisciplined thinking are rife — and perhaps the most insidious attribute of inexact, corrupt, or misinformed thought is that such thought often goes unnoticed.
The toolkit is an effort to help us all have more equipment at our disposal for identifying errors in thought — our own and others’ — and correcting them. Each piece devoted to a tool will usually be brief (unless the tool itself is highly complex), containing a definition, notes on application, and a short analysis.
You can find Vol.3 — on Equilism, the art of deriving pleasure from failure — here. Today’s volume concerns the Wittgentrap.
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