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23 days agoAlthough Gaboardi’s analysis of collective beliefs in the disciplinary matrix is very valuable, I miss the role of abductive imagination (that is, the creative leap by which we propose bold hypotheses based on clues) that drives conceptual innovation. Introducing an “Imaginative Matrix” with inspiring analogies, visual diagrams, and spaces for controlled speculation is not merely an intellectual exercise, but a practical lever for accelerating ideas, making the community more flexible, and better anticipating scientific changes.
I’ve always preferred Wittgenstein’s distinction between what can be said and what can only be shown. From that view, questions like ‘What is the meaning of life?’ don’t actually have an answer, because life itself lies outside language. It doesn’t need to be explained; it shows itself in the act of living. Trying to express it in words is already a kind of nonsense, because we’re asking language to do what only experience can. That’s why any attempt to describe it feels ‘mystical’ (not in a supernatural sense, but because it reveals something that cannot be captured by propositions). In this sense, the meaning of life is life itself; the ongoing activity of living.