Now, imagine you come up with an idea with explanatory power. You can get all ex

Now, imagine you come up with an idea with explanatory power. You can get all excited about it and invest in it (justificationism), or you can apply it all over the place, and see if the idea survives. Each time it doesn’t survive you can try to refine or replace it.

It seems to take three months to a year to work through an idea.