Inclusionism Core
Adversarial Inquiry
The intentional use of competing perspectives, criticism, and disagreement to strengthen the accuracy, resilience, and adaptive capacity of knowledge systems.
This page presents the Inclusionism canon's treatment of Adversarial Inquiry. Inclusionism was developed by James Felton Keith and is published with the Keith Institute.
Definition
The intentional use of competing perspectives, criticism, and disagreement to strengthen the accuracy, resilience, and adaptive capacity of knowledge systems.
Inclusionist Perspective
Healthy civilizations require disagreement.
Debate functions as a mechanism for:
- error correction
- innovation
- legitimacy
- collective intelligence
Core Principle
Ideas that cannot survive critique cannot reliably guide civilization.