underneath Tool Thinking is the belief that there are things about thinking that need to be concealed
Why do you think this? By “things about thinking”, do you mean like, the criteria for deciding which tool to use? If so:
I think people do sometimes deploy toolbox-thinking in cases where they want to conceal why exactly they chose one tool over another. Lots of ethical debates go this way. But more often, it’s about complexity rather than concealment: we choose our tools based on a myriad of small, nebulous, overlapping patterns, learned from diverse sources, some difficult to express in words, and the collective mass of them too large to communicate.
Why do you think this? By “things about thinking”, do you mean like, the criteria for deciding which tool to use? If so:
I think people do sometimes deploy toolbox-thinking in cases where they want to conceal why exactly they chose one tool over another. Lots of ethical debates go this way. But more often, it’s about complexity rather than concealment: we choose our tools based on a myriad of small, nebulous, overlapping patterns, learned from diverse sources, some difficult to express in words, and the collective mass of them too large to communicate.