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Erik Naggum's Ideas and Principles
Understanding, Agreement, and Acceptance
How these three approaches to foreign ideas are ordered is a significant indicator of personality type and personal
qualities. Those who are unable to discuss an issue without feeling that they accept it before they even investigate it
are useless to Knowledge and Information, as they judge before they know. Those who seek agreement before they
understand are likely to agree to things they do not understand the consequences of, and will only cause serious damage
to Knowledge and Information. Only those who seek to understand, and when they understand, determine whether they can
agree, and only when they agree, will accept, can bring human Knowledge and Information further. Anything else is
destructive to human life and to the value of each generation building upon the knowledge of previous generations.