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- Claim · Appearances · Skill · Seed ideaA measure that becomes a target stops measuringThe sentence usually attributed to Goodhart, in the form Strathern actually wrote it.
- Claim · Knowing · Tools · Seed ideaCheap answers do not make questions cheapAn editorial claim of this site: when answers get cheap, the scarce thing becomes knowing which question was worth asking.
- Claim · Tools · Appearances · Seed ideaEvery technology carries a biasPostman's claim that a technology is never additive: it redistributes what is easy, who is expert, and what counts as a problem.
- Claim · Knowing · Seed ideaFalsifiability demarcates sciencePopper's criterion: a theory is empirical only if some possible observation would contradict it.
- Claim · Knowing · Seed ideaKnowing that you do not knowSocrates' reputation for wisdom rests on a negative result, not a stock of answers.
- Claim · Skill · Knowing · Seed ideaKnowing-in-actionSchön's finding that expertise in hard cases is a conversation with a situation, not the application of a rule.
- Claim · Skill · Appearances · Seed ideaLabor, work and action are not one thingArendt's distinction between what is consumed, what endures, and what happens between people.
- Claim · Appearances · Knowing · Seed ideaLegibility costs local knowledgeScott's claim that a scheme can only administer what it has first simplified, and pays for the simplification.
- Claim · Knowing · Seed ideaMeaning is useA representation carries no sense apart from the practice of using it, and no rule fixes its own application.
- Claim · Knowing · Seed ideaNormal science does not test its frameKuhn's account of research as puzzle-solving inside a framework nobody is currently testing.
- Claim · Knowing · Skill · Seed ideaNot all lost friction was formativeAn editorial counter-claim: much of the labor a tool absorbs taught nobody anything, and mourning it romanticizes cost.
- Claim · Tools · Meaning · Seed ideaTechnology is a mode of revealingHeidegger's claim that technology is not a set of instruments but a way the world comes to show up.
- Claim · Skill · Meaning · Seed ideaThe achievement subject exploits itselfHan's claim that a society organized around can rather than must produces exhaustion without any coercion.
- Claim · Tools · Seed ideaThe danger is not any particular machineThe risk Heidegger names is that one way of disclosing the world becomes the only one available.
- Claim · Appearances · Tools · Seed ideaThe spectacle is a social relationDebord's insistence that the spectacle is not the images but the relationship between people that they mediate.
- Claim · Tools · Appearances · Seed ideaTools cross a second watershedIllich's two thresholds: the point where a tool starts to help, and the point where it takes the ability over.
- Claim · Knowing · Skill · Seed ideaWe know more than we can tellPolanyi's claim that skilled recognition outruns the criteria anyone can state for it.