Critical Preferences and Strong Arguments

https://curi.us/1489-critical-preferences-and-strong-arguments

My approach to solving this problem is to declare the conflict (temporarily) undecided (pending a new idea or criticism) and then to ask the question, “Given the situation, including that conflict being undecided, what should be done?”

I now realize that one solution you can make is to say you need to spend more time brainstorming ideas and criticisms. That works if you don’t have to act on it yet. At first I mostly thought something like just lowering the criteria, solving a different problem entirely or using some rule of thumb type thing like tradition. I think the “brainstorm more” solution is different because it’s still working on the solving the original problem.

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Creatively brainstorming new ideas and criticism can be difficult and expensive, but a similar and cheaper option is to learn already existing knowledge/solutions to problems. Also, both can be done for the same problem.