Edward De Bono - Six Thinking Hats.pdf

I CHAPTER 11
Thought of white hat
FACTS, TRUTH And PHIL OSOPHERS How true
it is a fact?
What value they have the Games of words of the philosophy?
Truths absolute and "in general".
The truth no it is so intimately related to the facts like most ofpeople it seems to imagine. The
truth is related to a system of game of words known like philosophy. The facts, with the
verifiable experience. people ofpractical mind to those who these subjects do not worry much
can to pass by high east chapter.
If all swans that we have seen are white, we can afirm audaciously that "all the swans are white "?
We can and we do it. This afirmation, of moment, is a true synthesis of our experience. In this
sense, it is also a fact.
The first one black swan that we see turns the afirmation false. Therefore, we have changed of
true to false with remarkable abruptness. Nevertheless if we observed the facts, still there are one
hundred experiences of white swans against one of swan black. Then, basing to us on
experienced facts, we can say: "majority of the swans is white "; "in general the swans are
targets "; "a little more than the ninety and nine percents of the swans they are white ".
This "in general "they are enormously practitioner (in general to the children like ice creams; in
general the women use cosmetics) but totally useless she stops the logical ones. This "all" all
are fundamental in the afirmation "the swans are white ", since the logic must move of a truth
absolute to another one: "If this is truth... then this..."
When us we crossed the first black swan, the afirmation "all the swans are targets "become
false. Unless we call of some other way to black swan. Now this subject becomes from words
and definitions. If we decided to maintain the whiteness like an essential part of the definition of
swan, then the black swan is another thing. If we excluded it like part essential of the definition,
we can include the black swan and found definition of the black swan in other characteristics.
The design and manipulation of such definitions constitutes the essence of the philosophy.
thought of white hat I know occupies of the usable information. By as much the expression "in
general" is perfectly acceptable. intention of the statistic is to give a specific character to this
expression vague. Not always it is possible to reunite such statistics, therefore a slight we must
resort to the double system (belief, verified fact).
...In general the corporations that make expenses on the basis of the extrapolation offuture
sales they encounter over problems. (It is possible to indicate few companies that have done this
and been successful.)