The Power of Concepts
How does a concept capable of reliably identifying its object, distinguishing boundaries, organising relations, and supporting further reasoning emerge from confused experience and exhausted frameworks? Within a meta-theory of original innovation, this raises a central question: how can an abundance of experience, data, and papers grow into an original theory?
The Study of Questions
Once a question has been posed, what makes it worthy of sustained pursuit? At a time when the cost of obtaining answers is falling sharply, the study of questions concerns more than how to ask. It attends to the whole process through which a question moves from an inchoate unease toward a form that can be developed. Within a meta-theory of original innovation, a question is the smallest generative unit whose continued growth requires systematic support.
Human Spiritual Dynamics
When external feedback is absent for a long time and standards of judgment have not yet been recognised, how can a person sustain the movement of inner motivation while continuing to revise direction? Within a meta-theory of original innovation, this concerns the inner conditions that allow an originator to continue working in the absence of external support.
- Original Innovation
- Study of Questions
- Concepts