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Uncertainty Isn’t a Human Flaw, It’s a Feature of the World
Human beings often cling to their certainties for fear that their opinions will be proven false. But a certainty that cannot be called into question is not a certainty. Solid certainties are those that survive questioning. In order to accept questioning as the foundation for our voyage toward knowledge, we must be humble enough to accept that today
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Emerge • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown
I often say that, in order to do qualitative research, you must accept that there is no universal truth, that all findings are tentative and context based, and that we live in an irrational and chaotic world.
Valerie J. Janesick • Stretching" Exercises for Qualitative Researchers
Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s
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