From the Renaissance on, humanists spent several centuries mocking the late Scholastics for stuff like this.
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Nice analogy… though in semi-defense of analytic philosophers, they seem to be willing to admit that no one really believes in supervaluationism; it’s just the technically best solution to the only formalization of the problem they’ve been able to come up with.
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“Things we actually do” makes me think of enactment and participatory theory- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_theory …
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Yes, sounds significantly similar!
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But don't we also want to derive an ideal from what we do, so that the ideal would then guide us?
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I don’t think that’s a good idea, FWIW.
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you might like this piece on how realpolitik is extremely rare because most people aren't rational enough:https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00323 …
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