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- Oct 2024
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Very few have the strength of mind tokeep back for a whole week a piece of Writing whichthey have finished. Type-writing sometimes necessitatesthis interval, or at any rate a certain interval.
The process of having a work typewritten forced the affordance of creating time away from the writing of a piece. This allows for both active and diffuse thinking on the piece as well as the ability to re-approach it with fresh eyes days or weeks later.
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- Jan 2024
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someone from outside 00:11:06 the discipline within which they um provide some new paradigmatic understanding uh is looking at the old problems with fresh eyes
for - outsider advantage - fresh eyes - outsider advantage - autodidactic - Whitehead - philosophy - paradigm shift
- He would teach at harvard from 1924 until 1937
- This is when most of his major philosophical books were written
- He reports in 1924 in the fall when he began teaching his first philosophy course to these students at harvard that
- it was also his first philosophy course
- Of course he'd been studying philosophy but he'd never had formal education in it
- So as is often the case with major paradigm changes
- someone from outside the discipline within which they provide some new paradigmatic understanding
- is looking at the old problems with fresh eyes
- They don't have the disciplinary training that would tend to leave one stuck in the existing concepts and categories
- Whitehead is coming into philosophy with fresh eyes
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