No one necessarily knows it's important too though, I guess
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @HPluckrose and
Like the custom evolved cos it helped ppl, no one knows how or why or that it is so important, they just act like it is
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism
And then we can look into why. See what is at the root of it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism
Yes that would be ideal but he says not often possible
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism
Then we just have to have some epistemic humility & say 'we don't know yet.' That's not difficult & doesn't take anything away.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism
I guess that is a very noncommittal attitude which might not be enough to preserve the 'ancient wisdom'
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism
Then the ancient wisdom will go. If it can't be supported on its own terms & has to be included as knowledge, it probably should.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yeah. It will eventually but he wants to preserve what is "true" (his definition) about those.
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Replying to @premodernism
So do we all. It is ideal if we can keep the good bits, understand what underlies them & lose the false beliefs & dubious ethics around them
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But we'd differ on what makes a belief false - whether it is unevidenced or doesn't help us thrive - so that doesn't help much.
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