Cumulative effect of ideas

I think the concept expressed by the Interference Effects of Ideas diagram in Jiro Kawakita’s “Idea Method” is a very good one, but the diagram itself is not easy to understand.

So I drew a new diagram.

First, look at concrete data, and then ideas will come from there.

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• Some people tend to take the words “idea” and “conception” too seriously. but “ideas” also includes things like “this is what I mean.
• In this article, once you’ve read it, you’ll think, “Is this what I mean?” and read on as if it were a hypothesis that “this is what I mean.
• That this remains the case calls it “underdeveloped.
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Another time, another set of data, and the same old “is this what I think it means?” can come up.

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• When this happens, that “is this what I mean?” hypothesis becomes stronger.
• This is what calls “gaining stability”
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On the other hand, some seemingly contradictory previous hypotheses may emerge.

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• At this point, if you think about it for a while and can’t resolve the discrepancy, you’ll say, “Well, neither hypothesis was correct.
• This calls the “downfall”
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In some cases, when you think about it, you can come up with a non-contradictory explanation for what appears to be a contradiction.

• This is very important.
  • It’s called dialectic development.
• Example: not improved. After a connection is discovered between the past and something that is not the same, it can develop further from there
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• Jiro Kawakita.icon] calls this “[Achievement of inclusiveness
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    • It was hard to highlight in the enclosure, so I traced a different color.

Concepts not in my diagram but in ‘s diagram

• The idea born from the first set of data and the idea born from the second set of data were combined to create a new idea.
• Combined with an idea born from the third set of data, a new idea was born.
• Combine that with the ideas generated from the fourth set of data, and even more new ideas were born.
• After I got to this point, I looked back at the record of when I worked with the first group of data, and I found even more new ideas connected to ideas that were undeveloped
  • This is an interesting event and I know you wanted to paint a picture of how this could happen.
  • Maybe it was hard to understand how you crammed four different explanations of the phenomenon into one sheet.

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