The Framework of theories, expectations, past experiences and language as boundaries

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Thought for the Day:

Came across this quote by Karl Popper which made me think about the need to consider our ideas, theories, expectations, past experiences, beliefs, and language as boundaries and, in a systems thinking sense, the relationship between "breaking out of our frameworks" to "find ourselves again in a framework":

"I do admit that at any moment we are prisoners caught in the framework of our theories; our expectations; our past experiences; our language. But we are prisoners in a Pickwickian sense; if we try we can break out of our frameworks at any time. Admittedly, we shall find ourselves again in a framework, but it will be a better and roomier one; and we can at any moment break out of it again." 

(Popper, 1970, p. 86)

The most important point I believe to take away here is that "we can at any moment break out of it again" - it being the Frameworks  and Boundaries that we have created in our minds.

References:

Popper, K. 1970.  Normal Science and its dangers.  In Imre Lakatos & Alan Musgrave (eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press.