RE: [DF] data = something given

[Dan Doherty]

Richard, et al said:

“As regards the Data chart, I agree that Assumptions isn't a good label, and I really like Perspectives. It's more respectful than Assumptions, and it's more self-describing than Data.”

 

I’m attracted to the Latin derivation: “something given.” If I write a statement on the data chart and there is disagreement about it being a given, then energy is generated that is useful for the group. Lacking consensus, I’ll test the group to see if the statement goes into concerns or gets re-framed as a problem statement. My feeling is that if the chart is labelled otherwise, potentially controversial items can sit on that chart as an “agree to disagree”, unchallenged and unexplored.

 

Dictionary.com says

Usage note: Data was originally the plural of the Latin noun datum, meaning “something given.” Today, data is used in English both as a plural noun meaning “facts or pieces of information” and as a singular mass noun meaning “information”

 

---Dan

[Tom Atlee]

I basically agree re not using "Assumptions" as a chart heading in traditional DF.

However, I've often wondered what DF would be like hybridized with Bohm Dialogue. In Bohm Dialogue the main point of the interaction is to surface, note, and "suspend" the assumptions of the group's members, to generate a shared journey into a cognitive space outside of those assumptions which, in its extreme form, is a version of collective consciousness (which is why Krishnamurti was a co-creator of the method).

But that hybrid would have a quite different purpose and dynamic than DF in its usual form. I'm not even sure what that purpose and those dynamics would be, without serious experimentation, but I expect it would be powerful in ways we haven't even conceived yet. But that's for another time and realm....

coheartedly,
Tom

> Usage note: Data was originally the plural of the Latin noun datum, meaning “something given.” Today, data is used in English both as a plural nounmeaning “facts or pieces of information” and as a singular mass noun meaning “information”
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