Comments on: Circuitous Development http://shamuswrites.com/2006/03/30/circuitous-development/ Trapped within my own mind Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:15:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jim http://shamuswrites.com/2006/03/30/circuitous-development/#comment-1495 Jim Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:04:35 +0000 http://open-dialogue.com/blog/?p=322#comment-1495 Circuitous and vague. And I apologize about the phantom article. It doesn't actually exist on this site. It was more a reference to a couple of other blogs I read, whose authors were complaining that no one addressed the issues of their posts. I had written about similar topics here, so I posted trackback links to theirs. Either they didn't bother to follow the trackback, or they didn't feel like my articles adequately addressed the topics. Whatever the case, my contribution to the conversation apparently went unnoticed. This caused me to analyze whether or not I did, in fact, adequately address the issue, hence, this article describing my general approach to various discussions. Do I <i>need</i> feedback? Yes, and no. I don't need it for any personal validation, but I do need it in order to test my own opinions and to poke holes in my logic. Sure, I hope people will come around to seeing things my way. Naturally, I believe my own conclusions to be correct. I am open, however, to being shown where I am wrong or even just slightly off, so fresh perspectives and new insights are important to me. Does that all make sense? The way I see it, the search for truth is a process. In this process I hold my conclusions to be truth, based on the evidence I have at hand, until something casts that truth into shadow, at which point I re-evaluate in light of this new evidence and revise my conclusion in light of it. Circuitous and vague.  And I apologize about the phantom article.  It doesn’t actually exist on this site.  It was more a reference to a couple of other blogs I read, whose authors were complaining that no one addressed the issues of their posts.  I had written about similar topics here, so I posted trackback links to theirs.  Either they didn’t bother to follow the trackback, or they didn’t feel like my articles adequately addressed the topics.  Whatever the case, my contribution to the conversation apparently went unnoticed.  This caused me to analyze whether or not I did, in fact, adequately address the issue, hence, this article describing my general approach to various discussions.

Do I need feedback?  Yes, and no.  I don’t need it for any personal validation, but I do need it in order to test my own opinions and to poke holes in my logic.  Sure, I hope people will come around to seeing things my way.  Naturally, I believe my own conclusions to be correct.  I am open, however, to being shown where I am wrong or even just slightly off, so fresh perspectives and new insights are important to me.  Does that all make sense?  The way I see it, the search for truth is a process.  In this process I hold my conclusions to be truth, based on the evidence I have at hand, until something casts that truth into shadow, at which point I re-evaluate in light of this new evidence and revise my conclusion in light of it.

]]> By: freethoughtmom http://shamuswrites.com/2006/03/30/circuitous-development/#comment-1482 freethoughtmom Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:43:06 +0000 http://open-dialogue.com/blog/?p=322#comment-1482 Hi Jim, thanks for reading my blog. I love the recursion in this post: it both talks about being circuitous while also demonstrating it. (but frustrating too, I couldn't find which article you were hoping to get people to "bite" on) You say: "with the hopes that everyone else participating will eventually be able to fill in the gaps and arrive at both the connection and the conclusion that I have." ... which sounds like you don't really need any feedback as fresh perspectives and new insights won't really matter? Just curious. Hi Jim, thanks for reading my blog. 

I love the recursion in this post: it both talks about being circuitous while also demonstrating it.  (but frustrating too, I couldn’t find which article you were hoping to get people to “bite” on)

You say: “with the hopes that everyone else participating will eventually be able to fill in the gaps and arrive at both the connection and the conclusion that I have.” ... which sounds like you don’t really need any feedback as fresh perspectives and new insights won’t really matter?  Just curious.

]]> By: mjs http://shamuswrites.com/2006/03/30/circuitous-development/#comment-1149 mjs Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:10:20 +0000 http://open-dialogue.com/blog/?p=322#comment-1149 hey very nice post. some good thought. Keep extrapolating... ;) hey very nice post. some good thought. Keep extrapolating… ;)

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