“And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school wherein I had excelled without labor, guided by theory, while many others, without mastery of theory failed despite monstrous effort. Better theory I thought had always worked for me and, if now available could make me acquire capital and independence faster and better assist everything I loved.” IfsHelpingWantedSchoolFoundEffortTheoryLaborIndependenceStructureInvestingAvailableDespiteFasterAcquireMasteryMonstrousSuperpower Author:Charlie Munger
“I began seriously concentrating on music study after I entered senior high school. I went to a class in the arts section at the YMCA and learned music theory and composition. Today, there are many classes like this available, but this was not so much the case in those days.” ArtTodaySchoolClassCasesStudyTheoryHigh SchoolAvailableCompositionSeniorSectionsConcentratingMusic TheoryHigh School SeniorYmca Author:Isao Tomita
“If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.” IfsWantLooksUseAbleTheoryPerspectiveDisciplineManagementMarketingAvailableFinanceLensesEquityAnomaliesRebecca Author:Clayton Christensen
“So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their epistemology as well. No doubt, the best available theories of today will look primitive in comparison with what we are in a position to understand hundreds of years from now.” YearsWellsLooksTodayCoursesDoubtPsychologyPositionTheoryAvailableNo DoubtComparisonRejectsPrimitiveEpistemology Author:Hilary Kornblith
“What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise that we may need to change our views on these questions as new evidence comes in.” NeedsMindMayViewsIssuesFiguresTheoryEvidenceAvailableRecogniseNeed A Change Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveViewsMoralOpinionParticularTheoryResourcesPrejudiceErrorsAvailableStrikesRidiculousSensibleOffensive Author:Allen W. Wood
“Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen to be close to true. Well, there is no particular reason to suppose that the intersection of true theories and theories that are accessible to the mind is very large. It may not be very large.” IfsMindWellsMayReasonHappensCertainParticularTheoryAvailableDevelopingAdaptedIntersections Author:Noam Chomsky