Summary: If you want to be a great philosopher, you’ll need to get really good at a bunch of prerequisites. But don’t just study one prerequisite at a time until you finish it. Instead, you should cycle back and forth between learning prerequisites and learning the more advanced knowledge that they come before. I explain how prerequisites work using a simple point-based model. I also discuss the importance of using new knowledge for your end goals to test it out.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://criticalfallibilism.com/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/
