"a vision has been described as a 'pre-analytic cognitive act.' It is what we sense or feel before we have constructed an systematic reasoning that could be called a theory, much less deduced any specific consequences as hypotheses to be tested against evidence. A vision is our sense of how the world works"
"Reality is far too complex to be comprehended by any given mind. Visions are like maps that guide us through a tangle of bewildering complexities. Like maps, visions have to leave out many concrete features in order to enable us to focus on a few key paths to our goals. Visions are indispensible-but dangerous, precisely to the extent that we confuse them with reality itself. . ."
from "A Conflict of Visions" by Thomas Sowell pg. 4
Posted by delpesco at May 8, 2004 01:56 PM