Tenacity: The Art of Letting the Science of ‘Informed Naivety’ Evolve

Authors

  • David J Nemeth Department of Geography and Planning Snyder Memorial Ms#140, The University of Toledo, Ohio 43606, California, Los Angeles, USA. Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47363/JAHL/2025(1)111

Keywords:

history, human culture, algorithms, intellectual progress

Abstract

This essay reclaims the transcendental “superorganism” concept advanced by Carl O. Sauer and Alfred Kroeber as a precursor to the meta modernist ideal of “informed naivety.” Drawing on Charles Sanders Peirce’s abductive logic and his notion of “tenacity,” the essay argues for a renewed academic ethos—one that embraces paradox, intuition, and cultural holism as vital traits for a more humane social science in higher education

Author Biography

  • David J Nemeth, Department of Geography and Planning Snyder Memorial Ms#140, The University of Toledo, Ohio 43606, California, Los Angeles, USA.

    Department of Geography and Planning Snyder Memorial Ms#140, The University of Toledo, Ohio 43606, California, Los Angeles,
    USA.

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Published

2025-10-20

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 4 (2025): Volume 1 Issue 4

Section

Articles