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I don't understand what is supposed to make an insight "obvious". Well, I do, but only in that obviousness is a property of the relationship between an individu
by darkerside 8y ago
I don't understand what is supposed to make an insight "obvious". Well, I do, but only in that obviousness is a property of the relationship between an individual and an idea, not a property of the idea itself. There are many ideas that were once novel to me that are now obvious insights. Conversely, there are many ideas that were once obvious to me that experience has since contraindicated. With that personal definition of "obvious", reading this article was a little bit of a bizarre experience.
- oarabbus_ 8y agoAs a corollary, most great ideas seem obvious after the fact.
- darkerside 8y agoGood point! And that doesn't make them any less great, does it.
- gniv 8y agoI think the meaning here was ideas that are assumed widely used, and the surprising value is in the fact that they are not widely used, and the need to be spelled out.
- darkerside 8y agoRight... but assumed by whom? The author of course. But anyone else? Maybe I'm the only one here with uncommon sense.