The Questions · the method · the reset
Isn’t this just a clever way of never being pinned down?
A method whose move is to clear everything you cannot defend can look like a method for never having to hold a position at all.
It would be, if the emptying were the end of it.
He was not emptying people of knowledge — he was emptying them of false knowledge.
What is left when the borrowed certainty is gone is not nothing.
What this settles
It is the first real question a person has ever asked themselves. The clearing is the first half of a move, and a method that stopped there would deserve the charge — this one does not stop there.
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Where this is worked out
I Know Nothing
When Did You Last Change Your Mind About Something Big?
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The withheld verdict
Why the work describes and does not prescribe, what happens to the room the moment it plants a flag, and whether a diagnostic can ever be perfectly neutral. 2 of the 3 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.
- Why won’t you tell anyone what to do?walked
- Can a diagnostic ever be perfectly neutral?not explored yet