Tradition of Criticism

A Culture that tolerates, indeed expects, Criticism of established and novel ideas alike.

Necessary for sustainable Progress. Can be formal (science, peer review) or informal (business partnerships, family discussions). Without traditions of criticism, rational memes cannot outcompete anti-rational memes, and dynamic societies collapse into static ones.

Connections

• •Essential for dynamic societies
• •Enables rational memes to outcompete anti-rational memes
• •Drives Progress through sustained Error Correction
• •An institutional framework for Criticism
• •Absent in static societies
• •Central to Critical Rationalism — the institutionalization of fallibilism
• •Protects Background Knowledge by keeping it open to scrutiny
• •Can be formal or informal — science, business, family
• •Fragile — requires active maintenance