I’m spending weeks reading many subfields in analytic philosophy, defensively. All comprehensively nonsense which I’m not going to discuss, but they do treat the phenomena I’m writing about, so I feel I have to be sure I’m not missing anything important.https://twitter.com/PaperFury/status/1027666554677166080 …
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Analytic philosophy pervasively commits a characteristically rationalist error: substituting a formal abstract problem for a real world topic, generating technical problems within the abstraction, failing to solve them, and trying harder instead of questioning the formalization
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The past few days have been been spent reading papers on “vague objects,” a/k/a “The Problem of the Many.” It’s a direct confrontation with nebulosity, with a complete failure to think about it sanely. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/problem-of-many/ …
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