Hidden Frameworks

In this Sunday's discussion, we talked a lot about the nature of knowledge and proof, as well as the frameworks we use to look at the world. The frameworks section was particularly appropriate, since I've been engaged over the last few years with busily deconstructing and reconstructing my frameworks. One of the things that came up during the call was how frameworks can be hidden, and we often don't recognize them until something brings them into sharp relief.

I've definitely noticed this in my own life--it seems like as soon as I think I've gotten to the bottom of the framing of an issue in my life, poof! along comes another previously hidden assumption. Unsurprisingly, that no-longer-hidden assumption leads to another assumption, and so on (and on and on).

Something that I brought up during the discussion was how I can know something intellectually but not really know it, that is, grasp it deep within the fiber of my being. The exact opposite is true too of unlearning something, like those previously hidden assumptions or beliefs. It's hard to unlearn something intellectually and learn something else when you still believe the old idea on some fundamental level. It takes a lot of time and patience until the new intellectual knowing becomes a fundamental grasping of the idea.

In my next post, I will probably start unpacking one of those assumptions and see where it takes me. What about you? What are some hidden assumptions/beliefs/frameworks that you are attempting to learn or unlearn?