Some have asked, “What is systematic knowledge?” I think the synonym is “Fragmentary knowledge.

What connects the fragments

  • connection
  • Associative connections
  • (strongly emphatic) not …
  • Maybe “seemingly contradictory” is important.
    • The unthinking person asks, “Which is right?” or, again, they assume the one they saw first is right and ignore the one that came later.

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