Category: Analytical
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AlsoTrue: Discover What You’re Missing
Traditional AI chatbots often try to please us, reinforcing our confirmation bias. That’s why we’ve developed alsotrue — a dialectical
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When Irrational Numbers Make a Rational Whole
According to legend, Hippasus was drowned by the Pythagoreans for revealing irrational numbers that seemed to violate their vision of
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Presentation at Ilia State University
5-min. animated ppt (no narration) on Structured Dialectics as a basis for computational philosophy (“From Pragmatists to Poets”) presented at
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Quaternionic Cognitive Geometry
Here we introduce the 3rd article in a series developing Structured Dialectics into a general framework for understanding complex systems.
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Structured Dialectics: A Generative Framework
A consolidated presentation of Structured Dialectics, integrating the generative framework with expanded applications in systems analysis, theory completion, and epistemology.
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Dialectical Synthesis on the Complex Plane
“Problems of organized complexity cannot be solved by analytical decomposition.”— Ludwig von Bertalanffy Modern systems are governed by a flawed
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False Certainty and the Optimization Trap
Breaking False Certainty in Business “The essence of the management problem is not uncertainty, but the false conviction that one’s
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Why Fact-Checkers Need a Dialectical Audit
“Belief creates the actual fact” ~ William James Modern fact-checking operates on two flawed premises: that “facts shape belief” and
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Eye Opener for Facilitators: Verifying Values in Group Discussions
A Case Study We considered how groups might construct a shared “value matrix” to guide further collaboration (see the Community
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Addressing Global Problematiques
Global Problematiques are not just complex—they are wicked: deeply interconnected, resistant to linear solutions, and shaped as much by values