How the Mind Seeks Truth: The Four Step Process of Discovery
Feb 08, 2002 02:42 PM
by danielhcaldwell
Some readers on this forum may be interested in the following
material from my unpublished draft manuscript from the 1980s on
Colonel Olcott and his testimony about the Mahatmas.
These pages deal with the 4 step process of discovery. Of course,
this is a simplified presentation but the basic points, I believe,
are important.
How the Mind Seeks Truth
[extracted from THE MODERN RESEARCHER by Barzun and Graff]
http://blavatskyarchives.com/history1.htm
The Four Step Process of Discovery:
How to Discriminate Between What is
Possible and What is Probable
http://blavatskyarchives.com/history2.htm
A More Detailed Outline of the 4-Step Process of Discovery
http://blavatskyarchives.com/history3.htm
An Example of How the 4-Step Process Works
http://blavatskyarchives.com/history4.htm
A pole vault contest
http://blavatskyarchives.com/history5.htm
All of the above is relevant to what I posted in the last month or
two about the "unpacking method" and the "possibility/plausibility"
method of argument.
See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/4421
Also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/4423
It is also relevant to what I will be posting in
the next day or so.
Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/introduction.htm
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