If one wants to get to the absolute bottom of something, presumably for many kinds of human somethings, the journey to reach the bottom will:
(1) take time
(Rule of thumb: if it seems like it will take too much time, you’re at the start of the right path)
[paradoxical dialectic #1]
(2) demand suspension of reactions
(3) cause encounters which elicit antipathy and sympathy
(4) require configuration of viable abductions at ‘ripe’ waystations (during the journey)
[paradoxical dialectic #2]
(5) be advantaged by one feeling through one’s self feeling through the subject
(6) be advantaged by enacted agency removed from the subject’s ideology/personal culture
(7) be advantaged by researcher’s understanding of the imposition provided by their own ideology
(8) be completed by the invocation and instantiation of negative capability
These dispositional elements support deliberate knowing (learning) and stand against the varieties of thin approaches, each of which is anchored in a singular routine to obtain, ‘not really needing to know much more than I can easily know without spending more time, and certainly not challenging myself to learn more–beyond where I habitually like to stop learning.’
(Substitute satisfyingly for habitually to capture the reflexive certainty, “know enough already, thank you!” Enough is equivalent to knowing all one needs to know.