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53 Post author: jwhendy 07 January 2011 12:17AM

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Comment author: jwhendy 07 January 2011 06:53:57PM 0 points [-]

Thanks much for those links. Both were wonderful. I especially liked the second.

Also, there was a link to Leaky Generalizations which contained this:

...get frustrated when we have to tolerate continued ambiguity. Raising the value of > the stakes can increase need for closure - which shuts down complexity tolerance > when complexity tolerance is most needed.

That rang quite true and meshed with Lost Purposes in that if the only goal is to eliminate ambiguity or find a label, attentiveness to the method and actual goal are muddled.