Tag Archives: Belief

Words About Learning: Belief

Posted on March 22, 2018 by

My desire to make something true, does not make it so. Belief is a powerful force, and sits beneath some of our conception of how the world is, how it works. We learn, we form abstractions, we make leaps of … Continue reading →

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Belief: how do we choose what’s true?

Posted on October 28, 2014 by

The gap between what we believe to be true and what’s really true can be significant: i’m not talking about religion, but rather in the stories we understand about organisations. The space they create around themselves for communities to form … Continue reading →

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Finding the meaning in words: science and religion

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

Words convey ideas, but the meaning is something we construct from it. We often turn to written sources as our first source of information on a subject, but those sources won’t necessarily give us the ‘truth’, but rather a narration … Continue reading →

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