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Thinking in Systems.

I think teaching individuals to think in cause/effect, correlations, and chronological order is very important - but I think there's a missing fourth branch of deductive reasoning that we haven't taught en masse: Mereological.

Mereology is a disciplinary and philosophical perspective that implies that everything in the world is a set of parts and wholes; with every entity being both a part OF something, and a whole OF something else.

I think if more people thought of things and systems in part-whole relations, they'd get a more intimate understanding of what things are, how they work, their flaws, and how they can fix them - sometimes with other parts and wholes :)



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