I just wanted to let you know how much I’m enjoying this thread and, more broadly, the great value you add to this community.  I also found it kind of fun that we share a somewhat similar position.  I have assumed for several decades now, that knowledge is primarily obtained through approximation.  That our perception is so limited, that all we can hope for are decent metaphors that allow us some semblance of a capacity to predict.  Even our greatest physics models are said to contradict one another, yet still provide their respective verifiable predictions.  For me, the best practice in this regard is to make the largest and most cohesive models that I can manipulate in my mind and put my abstract thinking cap on when “translating” the models of others.

I’ll be following along here, even if I’ve nothing to add.  :thumb_up: