That is, we live abductively: 1-1a5 We always reason abductively 1-1a5a1 The process of argument starts in the middle, and doesn’t start with axioms and end with the conclusion 1-1a6 To live is to live like a detective 1-1a2e7c You can’t help being cultural, but you don’t have to commit to any specific culture Next: 1-1a4 We don’t just take in ‘new things’ into our mind; at the same time, we recalibrate the framework with which such new inputs can be processed.