The premodern approach is based in faith. The postmodern approach is based on a cynical rejection of all that came before. The modern approach, the one most deeply and accurately informed by an evolutionary world view, is based on skepticism.https://www.patreon.com/posts/22296341
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I agree with you. I also feel that we are guided in our skepticism by how our experience of reality aligns with our models. Many times we don't even notice the option of being skeptical of assumptions built deep into our constructed realities until many experiences accrue. /
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In other words, we start with faith in what we've inherited from tradition and let faith guide us to where our experiences have taught us that our skepticism is best applied for maximum effectiveness. Modernism's rejection of so many useful traditions may still prove disastrous.
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I agree. Do what you have been doing, listen to whom you have been listening to, but be open to the possibility, sometimes the necessity, of change, made ever more likely in an ever more quickly changing environment.
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One fascinating aspect of modernity is that (as with any movement) many of the ppl who kicked it off probably didn't envision that many assumptions which they would not have considered up for debate eventually ended up on the chopping block.
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Sagan’s Standard and Hitchen’s Razor deal with the time issue easily enough. There is no reason to waste time on any proposition that doesn’t make the cut.
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When faith is working properly, it doesn't deal in propositions. Natural selection never required logic and propositions in order to operate.
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