# Replying to "Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites"\[Dface\]

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**Created:** [August 16, 2026, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites-dface/2231 "2026-08-16T18:33:27Z")
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### Author: ![Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/dface/32/3926_2.png) [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 12:56am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites-dface/2231/19 "2026-08-19T00:56:14Z")

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Imma write about the following paragraph:

> [@Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/1747/1):
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> When you make a mistake, you should investigate the cause of the mistake. Often, mistakes are caused by mistakes in prerequisite knowledge, rather than being isolated issues. So when something goes wrong, that’s often a good reminder to review and improve some prerequisites.

The first sentence:

> [@Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/1747/1):
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> When you make a mistake, you should investigate the cause of the mistake.

Sometimes you don’t know if you make a mistake no? Idk about that.

It would be nice to be in the habit of investigating the cause of the mistake. It would be nice to get that practice. That would make it easier to understand what it looks like to find causes of mistakes. That way it helps when you find causes of others mistakes.

> [@Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/1747/1):
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> When you make a mistake,

Making a mistake is the same thing as making an error? I think yeah

What are some examples of making a mistake? I think if you’re trying to get a 100% accuracy on a typing test and you mistype a word then that’s a mistake.

In the second part of the sentence:

> [@Cycle Between Learning Critical Fallibilism and Its Prerequisites](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/cycle-between-learning-critical-fallibilism-and-its-prerequisites/1747/1):
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> you should investigate the cause of the mistake.

What are some causes of mistakes that happen? Idk but lets think of some simple mistakes that happen. Maybe with baking. You make a mistake in forgetting to let the cake out of the oven. You could probably have a lot of causes there…you get distracted from watching online reels that you lose track of time. Did becoming distracted cause the mistake?

My question is what is a cause? How do you investigate? You ask why questions? That’s related to postmortems

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