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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8933437" data-attributes="member: 71699">Without wishing to overtax this particular line of debate, I had some thoughts about it that amount to saying that in every case, one must have knowledge about X to develop, hold, and apply any theory about X. Leading to a conjecture that there is correllation between the extent of&nbsp; the knowledge and the power of the theory.'reviewers' - I rely on the theorising of others about X (so anything we want to say about this, transfers to those others)'sounds boring' - a minimal theory based on scanty knowledge, that would take additional effort and knowledge to develop into anything with wider applicability'don't like comedies' - seems to rely on some pre-existing theory (classifying narratives), but otherwise same as aboveIn summary then, I agree that one can develop theories on lesser rather than greater knowledge. The risk will be that those theories will be shakier and perhaps ultimately succumb before theories based on greater knowledge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8933437, member: 71699"] Without wishing to overtax this particular line of debate, I had some thoughts about it that amount to saying that in every case, one must have knowledge about X to develop, hold, and apply any theory about X. Leading to a conjecture that there is correllation between the extent of the knowledge and the power of the theory. 'reviewers' - I rely on the theorising of others about X (so anything we want to say about this, transfers to those others) 'sounds boring' - a minimal theory based on scanty knowledge, that would take additional effort and knowledge to develop into anything with wider applicability 'don't like comedies' - seems to rely on some pre-existing theory (classifying narratives), but otherwise same as above In summary then, I agree that one can develop theories on lesser rather than greater knowledge. The risk will be that those theories will be shakier and perhaps ultimately succumb before theories based on greater knowledge. [/QUOTE]

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