PRAGMA · Marshall, Sebastian

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Is this actually working?
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An editorial synthesis of PRAGMA: connect descriptions to conduct, work to results, and beliefs to evidence. The workshop illustration is newly created, not an original book graphic.

Notice what conduct reveals

Use repeated behavior, relevant incentives and uncomfortable evidence to revise a judgment. A label or a confident self-description is insufficient.

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Finish a result that can teach you

Define a usable stage, work on the current constraint, and preserve capacity for uncertainty. More activity is not automatically more useful output.

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Let evidence change the description

Specify what a claim means, separate a meaningful model from a true one, and compare expectations with what happens. This is a way to examine claims, not a complete theory of truth.

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