No room for thinking or feeling
No room for thinking or feeling
Most people mistake a thought or a feeling for a compelling conclusion.
When you say “I think…” or “I feel…” or “I hope…”, it indicates a lack of definitive knowledge or the empirical data that may be needed to substantiate your clause. Any statement made therefore is without a base! It is not defensible!
If you are genuinely interested in proving the validity of your clause to the outside world and to yourself, your clause must be viewed as a practical situation or condition taken as the ground for action to prove or disprove it.
A tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences is a ‘Hypothesis’.
When you strongly ‘feeling’ or ‘thinking’ therefore, you are really stating your hypothesis. It may be based on some knowledge; but it is not conclusive yet!
A researcher hypothesizes, draws empirical data, concludes.
A scientist hypothesizes, experiments, concludes.
A naturopath hypothesizes, tests, concludes.
An entrepreneur hypothesizes, tries, concludes.
Repeated trials until there is adequate empirical evidence or substantive knowledge to back your original hypothesis is the only way to conclude.
