Hmmm. Humility needs to provide us with something more than a try, test and learn approach. There may be merit in using some examples where the consequences of decisions are so great that you are effectively making a one-off decision (do I jump off the cliff into the water below etc). This might help identify the risk profile which naturally comes with making decisions in a humble frame. My feeling is that without understanding the risk-consequence dimension all of the thinking frames remain too abstracted.
Perhaps the real strength of humility is that it creates the necessary conditions for the group-based thinking and decision-making that society inevitably needs to function well. Both skepticism and certainty provide no communal space for the thinking of others to be recognised. It is the creation of this communal space (and the freedom of individuals within it) which underpins a functioning society. My feeling is that, of the thinking frames you outline, only humility provides the conditions under which a collective society (and a society of collective societies) can truly flourish.
I think you are be underselling the benefits of 'try, test and learn' - as it is the core engine that enabled the scientific revolution! If humility gives us this, when no other epistemic attitude does, then I'd take it as an important insight.
But your point about risk and consequence for one-off decisions is an interesting one. I suspect there is something there but I'll have to think about it.
And I love your analysis in the second paragraph. I may already have started working on a post that says very similar things, but perhaps I should leave you to write it....
Hmmm. Humility needs to provide us with something more than a try, test and learn approach. There may be merit in using some examples where the consequences of decisions are so great that you are effectively making a one-off decision (do I jump off the cliff into the water below etc). This might help identify the risk profile which naturally comes with making decisions in a humble frame. My feeling is that without understanding the risk-consequence dimension all of the thinking frames remain too abstracted.
Perhaps the real strength of humility is that it creates the necessary conditions for the group-based thinking and decision-making that society inevitably needs to function well. Both skepticism and certainty provide no communal space for the thinking of others to be recognised. It is the creation of this communal space (and the freedom of individuals within it) which underpins a functioning society. My feeling is that, of the thinking frames you outline, only humility provides the conditions under which a collective society (and a society of collective societies) can truly flourish.
I think you are be underselling the benefits of 'try, test and learn' - as it is the core engine that enabled the scientific revolution! If humility gives us this, when no other epistemic attitude does, then I'd take it as an important insight.
But your point about risk and consequence for one-off decisions is an interesting one. I suspect there is something there but I'll have to think about it.
And I love your analysis in the second paragraph. I may already have started working on a post that says very similar things, but perhaps I should leave you to write it....