Polymaths Settle Interdisciplinary Disputes

When experts in different fields use different core abstractions and tools, their first‑pass conclusions will often conflict. Training, rewarding, and elevating people who master and integrate multiple relevant abstraction sets (polymaths) can expose and resolve those contradictions more quickly than current discipline‑bounded institutions allow. — If adopted, this would reshape university hiring, funding, and advisory structures and could materially reduce high‑stakes public disagreements in science and policy.