Conjecture

A frame is most often undone from inside, by a question its own keepers admit as harmless: a method that never mentions the core implies there is something outside it, and the questions people ask set the answers they can find. Ansary's ch. 14: Bacon's method "said nothing against God, mind you. It merely didn't mention God." The scholastics "were just adding more stars to the constellation, filling in the picture, as it were," but "the questions people ask shape the kinds of answers they come up with." The church fathers "didn't realize that talking about something other than God implied that something other than God existed," so the threat was "germinating within the bosom of the church itself." Clay's step: for a story held open, the question to watch is not the one that attacks the core but the one that quietly stops needing it.

How groups think together