Thinking Like A Fox
<p>There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: ‘The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.’ Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words, which may mean no more than that the fox, for all his cunning, is defeated by the hedgehog’s one defence. But, taken figuratively, the words can be made to yield a sense in which they mark one of the deepest differences which divide writers and thinkers, and, it may be, human beings in general.</p>
<p>Hedgehogs, as Berlin writes, “know one big thing.” They have a single-minded view of the world that makes them overconfident of their own opinions and worldview. They’re too sure of themselves. And in some respects, aren’t we all? It’s an understandable tendency of the human mind. The world is complex, too complex to make perfect, complete sense of. That’s why we make generalizations about people and places, events and situations. It gives us a sense of understanding, albeit an incomplete understanding.</p>
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