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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 5 Sep 2018
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    Trying again to specify "rationalism." Ultimately, it seems to be a matter of "family resemblance"; the various rationalisms may have no single feature in common. You know it when you see it. https://meaningness.com/eggplant/terms pic.twitter.com/rlhmJhY4qh

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      2. nick barr‏ @nsbarr 5 Sep 2018
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        Doing some parallel reading and wondering whether “analytic philosophy” or more provocatively just “philosophy” might also serve here.pic.twitter.com/rClr0RTawT

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 5 Sep 2018
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        That’s a striking sentence!

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      2. John Nerst‏ @everytstudies 6 Sep 2018
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        This doesn't match the way you usually use the word, imo. You tend to imply that "rationalism" means a belief in perfectly formal thinking as something that can and should be applied to everything, which doesn't follow from your first sentence. Rational isn't the same as formal.

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 6 Sep 2018
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        Hmm… “critical rationalism” is an atypical example that fits the first bit and isn’t especially about formalism.

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        i’ve weighed in on this a bit over the here and there—I’m of the opinion that there are some key underlying emotional patterns that cause rationalisms to all look alikepic.twitter.com/2ljWwojeGm

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      1. jonathanstray‏ @jonathanstray 5 Sep 2018
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        It's a valiant attempt but I wonder if it would be simpler to go the sociological route: "I'm talking about what STEM people are educated into, it has a long and relatively coherent history..."

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      1. Szymon Majewski‏ @brewingsense 5 Sep 2018
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        It seems to me that a common failure mode comes from assuming that success in a domain is effect of obeying transcendent rule, instead of the rule being rough approximation of what kind of behaviours led to success in the past, that may not transfer accross domains of activity.

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