“Salvage” seems like a very strong frame/asserting what you’re trying to prove. Something that needs salvaging has already failed, and the implication is you’re putting a bunch of work into fixing it.
An alternate frame would be “mining”, where it’s accepted that most of the rock in a mine is worthless but you dig through it in the hopes of finding something small but extremely valuable. It might need polishing or processing, but the value is already in it in a way it isn’t for something that needs salvaging.
My guess is that you (Jim) would agree with the implications of “salvage”, but I wanted to make them explicit.
“Salvage” seems like a very strong frame/asserting what you’re trying to prove. Something that needs salvaging has already failed, and the implication is you’re putting a bunch of work into fixing it.
It only counts as salvage epistemology if the person doing the mining explicitly believes that the thing they’re mining from has failed; that is, they’ve made a strong negative judgment and decided to push past it. I don’t mean for the term to include cases where the thing has failed but the person mistakenly believes it’s good.
“Salvage” seems like a very strong frame/asserting what you’re trying to prove. Something that needs salvaging has already failed, and the implication is you’re putting a bunch of work into fixing it.
An alternate frame would be “mining”, where it’s accepted that most of the rock in a mine is worthless but you dig through it in the hopes of finding something small but extremely valuable. It might need polishing or processing, but the value is already in it in a way it isn’t for something that needs salvaging.
My guess is that you (Jim) would agree with the implications of “salvage”, but I wanted to make them explicit.
It only counts as salvage epistemology if the person doing the mining explicitly believes that the thing they’re mining from has failed; that is, they’ve made a strong negative judgment and decided to push past it. I don’t mean for the term to include cases where the thing has failed but the person mistakenly believes it’s good.
Suggestion withdrawn.