Does refuted mean there’s a decisive failure? If something has no decisive failures then that’s the best position for an idea. Can an idea have more than one decisive failure? Are ideas judged best as either non-refuted vs. refuted?
Non-refuted sounds like you didn’t find something wrong with the idea. If an idea is refuted that’s like it failed at the goal. That idea wouldn’t be so good to use for that goal. If the idea was fine, then what other goal does it have?
How is the quote related to perfectionism? Idk but I bet you could have an idea that’s non-refuted and you keep working on it to make it better. I think you can make it fail at a goal that isn’t productive. That or u might not be working on the refutation of the idea. Like, you could deal with the wrong goal while trying to make it perfect.