Objective knowledge is possible and it comes from within. Communication is lossy so even precise books and teaching can not transfer objective knowledge. It starts with conjecture and then in repeated cycles of criticism it is corrected. Through this process objective knowledge can be found, but also shared.
See also:
- Epistemology
- From The Beginning of Infinity psuedo play with Socrates, Plato, and Hermes
- Reading is the transformation of a linked list of ideas into a tree
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Outline for my annual essay about things I learned and reflections for the year.
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Conjecture Is Vital to Product Development
Product development tends to overlook the importance of conjecture. Lean startup and similar ‘lean’ movements create a culture of empiricism—only that which can be measured must be true. This might make sense for optimizing mature products, but a culture of empiricism leads to an incremental approach to building new products and, at best, leads to finding a local optima.