Archive - 7 Provisional Truths

The Situated Self

That's right, the 'Self'. We have one, and it matters. Here's what it means for sensemaking.

Jun 10 •

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May 2025

How Broken Ways of Knowing Feed Modern Tyrants: The Case for Attunement

When truth-seeking fails, authoritarians offer poisoned certainty - and we keep eating it. Here's an antidote.

May 18 •

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Pluralism, Not Relativism

There Are Many Valid Paths. But Not All Paths Lead Somewhere.

May 8 •

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April 2025

All Perspectives Are Partial

How incomplete views can overlap to reveal complex truths

Apr 23 •

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February 2025

🚨 A Dictatorial Coup Is Taking Place Within The United States Right Now 🚨

What's Happening. Why It's Dangerous. How To Push Back.

Feb 20 •

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January 2025

The Model Is Not The Manifestation

How mentals models both reveal and obscure a complex Reality

Jan 15 •

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December 2024

Parting The Veil Of Scientific Realism

What a painting of a pipe reveals about our scientific models

Dec 23, 2024 •

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How Both 'Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings' And 'Everything Is Relative' Get It Wrong

To thread the complexity of our world, we'll need to go beyond rigid Absolutism and inconsistent Relativism

Dec 17, 2024 •

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Constructed But Not Imaginary

How 'Enactivism' reveals a flexible path between unyielding certainty and paralyzing skepticism

Dec 16, 2024 •

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Why ChatGPT Doesn't Actually Understand Anything

The gap between AI and human understanding isn't about processing power - it's about our capacity for Care.

Dec 16, 2024 •

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No Going Back: The Promise and Peril of Scientific Progress

Between Worship and Denial Lies A 'Middle Way' For Thinking About Science

Dec 16, 2024 •

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When Old Stories Die

The Need For Reconstructive Epistemology

Dec 16, 2024 •

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