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Jun. 30th, 2023 04:08 pm“Mistakes are not just opportunities for learning; they are, in an important sense, the only opportunity for learning or making something truly new. Before there can be learning, there must be learners. ”
Daniel C. Dennett. “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking.”
He's mostly talking about affordable mistakes, i.e. the kind of mistakes that allow the learner to live through them.
