# Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/1747
**Category:** Elliot Temple
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**Created:** [March 28, 2023, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/1747 "2023-03-28T11:13:49Z")
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#### Post date: [March 28, 2023, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/1747/1 "2023-03-28T11:13:50Z")

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**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.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://criticalfallibilism.com/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/](https://criticalfallibilism.com/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/)

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