Cumulative effect of ideas

2023-01-19 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, we look at concrete data, and from there ideas emerge.

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• Some people tend to take the words "idea" and "idea" too seriously, but "idea" also includes hypothesis, such as "Is this what you mean?" but hypothesis like "I wonder if this is what it means..." is also included in this "idea.
• 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 hypothesis remains hypothetical 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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Conversely, some hypotheses may appear to have apparent inconsistency with previous hypotheses.

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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: Improved/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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