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Reflective Hope #1

The Cumulative Curriculum

How people might acquire education in a digital culture

The Cumulative Curriculum presents a work of reflective hope. That's easily said, but to have a clear, dependable meaning, we should explain the phrase reflective hope. The phrase appears on the Internet a little less frequently than absurd hope, 11% as frequently as absolute hope, 4.5% as frequently as strong hope, and 1.5% as faint hope. Despite the relative obscurity of the term, we should not how it is a basic principle characterizing all agent driven action that takes place throughout the realm of organic life.

Let's contemplate some examples to pin down what we mean by hope with respect to agent driven action. Doing so will make clear the role of reflective thinking plays in it. Note that we've right here proposed to do something prospectively, to explicate the relation between some conceptual principles by using some examples. In this way we've directed attention to the inception of a course of thought that we may follow with the prospective thinking still incomplete, indeterminate. Hence, our action will take place over a duration of time and we will exercise our agency with respect to it during the duration between inception and completion.

All action takes place within a locus and a duration