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Gold Coins and Ladders

Gold Coins and Ladders

What are the use of ideas?

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Max Jackson
Sep 12, 2022
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One way of looking at human inquiry is to see it as a sort of accumulation, a process that looks a lot like filling a treasure chest with gold coins. In this image each gold coin represents one fact, one discrete chunk of absolute truth that is valuable independently of all the other gold coins in the chest. One gold coin might represent “grass is green…

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