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A framework proposing that thinking itself is elastic—that cognitive processes can stretch across problems, contexts, and challenges without breaking. Thinking Elasticity suggests that thought isn't fixed but adaptive: attention stretches, memory stretches, reasoning stretches to meet demands. [The theory] identifies thinking's elastic limits: when does stretching become overload? When does adaptation become confusion? [Understanding] thinking requires [understanding] its stretch—how far it can go before it snaps. A normative framework proposing that we should cultivate elastic thinking—thinking that can stretch across perspectives, disciplines, and paradigms without breaking. Elastic Thinking is flexible without being flimsy, adaptive without being unprincipled. It stretches to accommodate new evidence, new viewpoints, new ways of reasoning—but knows its limits, knows when stretching would break rather than bend. It's the cognitive [virtue] for a complex world: thinking that can stretch without snapping.
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