Conclusion:
In the process of pursuing the “Truth” of whether or not a
given arrangement “would have worked”, one may be disappointed with the lack of
cohesion. This is of course a conclusion: The arrangement does not work. Yet
what is rightfully an aesthetic judgment, upon which the conclusion can be
based, may in such a case be confused with a lack of cohesion on the part of
the investigator. One presumes that the lack of cohesion is not aesthetic but
cognitive; clearly, these results won’t do, and a mistake was made. But the
only mistake was the attempt.
Thus the Socratic Ideal dies again.
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