Ulrich de Balbian

Philosophical Insights Original vs Factual Derivative: (original, creative vs academic, factual ideas) Ulrich de Balbian

It will be noticed that original- and creative-thinkers in the socio-cultural practice of philosophy present us with their own, new and original ideas and patterns, sets or models of such ideas. In the case of original/creative-thinkers these things will be 'intuitive' or 'devised' by the the individual himself while in the case of lesser original- and creative-thinkers these things (ideas, insights, tools, techniques, the ways they are arrived at or being constituted, employed to devise or express sets of new ideas or insights or models) will be obtained from the ideas, insights, statements, hypotheses and theories of other thinkers. The latter employs insights and ideas of others as 'facts or factual ideas' as 'truths' so as to argue for, establish, validate and legitimize their own derivative ideas resembling a kind of empirical research and the presentation of data in lectures and conferences and it is far removed from the approach of original thinkers.