Within musashis words we can see something of socratic method; that knowledge comes from within. Socrates sought truth and didnt think there was alot of it. Here Musashi begins with a truth and for him, questioning the known will lead us on a path of revelation.
"From one thing, know ten thousand things.
When you attain the Way of strategy there will not be one thing you cannot see.
You must study hard."
Miamoto Musashi
When we paint the images of our table top world, we use broad familiar brush strokes. "The inn at the end of the dirt road, glowed through lattice paper screens and a bubbling commerce of voices".
Sounds great and we are all right there in the moment.
But are we. What does the inn look like, wooden? stone foundation? the lanterns must have a smell what are they burning? Hows a small village support an inn anyway? Who comes here to spend money, what are they selling ? Is it made here. Interrogate the vagaries and we discover a void to fill.
When we interrogate the initial framing, it is within those thousands of things that our story is told.
When we go looking, those answers cannot be determined by the framing alone, just suggested, and our story one of discovery for the question as much as the telling .
Role playing games are games of discovery as much as of telling. Free within the revelation.