Workshop Index
Triangulating Across Disciplines
Using more than one lens without collapsing the reading into one master model or dissolving it into undecidable plurality.
Knowledge
The Work
The Knowledge uses many instruments because no single lens can read reality at every scale. Game theory sees incentives. Entropy sees maintenance pressure. Information theory sees signal loss. Indigenous knowledge systems may see relationship, place, and obligation where an extractive model sees resource. A Jain epistemic practice may see the conditional truth inside claims that a single standpoint would turn into rivals.
The work of this category is to use more than one lens without cheating. One kind of cheating is Control: pick one instrument, make it sovereign, and reinterpret everything else through it. The other is Decay: collect perspectives until no claim can be tested, ranked, or acted on. Triangulating Across Disciplines holds the harder position. Let each lens show what it can see. Make each lens name what it cannot see. Then build a map that is more answerable to reality than any one lens could produce alone.
The Tools
Anekāntavāda / Syādvāda. The Jain source-inherited discipline of treating claims as partial, standpoint-bound, and conditionally expressible, so one-sided certainty does not mistake a slice of reality for the whole.
Two-Eyed Seeing. The source-inherited Mi'kmaw principle of learning to see from the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing and Western ways of knowing together, without collapsing either one into the other.
This category begins with two tools because the first build-out needs a clean shape, not a catalog. More triangulation practices may enter later through the source-inherited candidate protocol, but only if they add a distinct mechanism rather than another attractive way to say "many perspectives."