John Gunkler wrote:
>It is simplistic, I know, but I was taught that
>creativity involves (at least) two, very different aspects: divergent
>thinking and convergent thinking.
John,
At de Lange discribed the scientific process as
observation-speculation-falsification.
I guess that divergent thinking is appropriate for speculation and
convergent thinking for falsification. I think, this is in very short,
what you worked out in your mail. But where is observation?
It may be confusing, but I think the whole three step process can be a
subject of obserservation too.
>"Just accept anything anyone wishes to contribute."
>
>But, you see, I do accept everything anyone wishes to contribute -- I
>accept it into the net as a candidate for surviving the screening that
>will later occur. But I don't accept anything (as worthy of belief or
>use) without first putting it through that fine-mesh screen.
The verb "accept" require some more qualification. It is a big difference,
whether one accepts a contribution as
- one of others in a file or box
- valid in its form and/or content
- part (pole) of creative tension
- poetically said
- fitting to ones own thinking
etc.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
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