What To Do In Times Like These? (and announcing Nov 29th)
It is all too easy to get caught up in current events today, with the U.S. president scheming to discredit his own country’s election results, COVID-19 resurgent in many countries, social upheaval and natural disasters continuing to worsen with each passing...
Access David Fleming’s masterwork for free – launching LeanLogic.online!
By now most readers of my blog will be familiar with my late mentor’s masterwork Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. You might though be less familiar with LeanLogic.online, which is now ready for its full launch! This is a lovingly...
A Dictionary for Our Times
Originally published in the Spring 2020 edition of STIR magazine
Extracts from David Fleming's extraordinary, posthumous Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It (Chelsea Green, 2016). Selected for this issue by its editor Shaun Chamberlin. Endnotes omitted.
Asterisks mark words with their own separate entry in the dictionary. Any of these can be read in full and for free at the newly-launched LeanLogic.online
Expectations. The attitudes and assumptions which shape the way we make sense of events and plan our response. Unless our expectations are right, or at least expressed as a considered set of probabilities, we plan to fail. But, right or wrong, expectations are self-reinforcing, for we see what we expect to see. We may not realise how critical expectations are in guiding perception, but they are decisive. In the context of our perception of *art, the art historian E.H. Gombrich reminds us of . . .
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