First try at a diagram showing how formal rationality relies on informal (non-rational) reasonableness to connect it with reality.pic.twitter.com/Q0VFRWR44w
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First try at a diagram showing how formal rationality relies on informal (non-rational) reasonableness to connect it with reality.pic.twitter.com/Q0VFRWR44w
Yes, sorry, it was not very clear! The idea is that the bottom arrows are the first step (formulating the problem) and the top arrows are the last (implementing the rational solution in reality).
“Abstraction” here is supposed to mean somehow transferring the real-world situation into a Platonic domain, whereas “application” is looking for things in the real world that can fit the rational schema.
Not sure I follow—green is rational and abstraction is green?
Oh, I see! Yes, I think you have a good point there. I also need more sleep, and you are persuading me that the diagram was seriously premature :)
Mostly I was really happy that my picture of a raven looked surprisingly raven-like on the first try and drawn without reference to a photo :)
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