Importantly true! Also importantly true: the world doesn’t make sense, and never can. This is a source of enjoyable wonderment and awe (as well as terrifying dangers).https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/1092150947416031233 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
If the extent to which the world makes sense is somewhere between 0 and 100%, does falling short of 100% make it true that it doesn't make sense? I think only if said against a very particular background.
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This raises key issues in the ontology of truth! One way of relativizing an absolute statement, that is importantly true in some sense (like
@reasonisfun’s) is to assert that its opposite is also true. That then prompts the question “how can that be?”1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
One answer can be yours: it’s true to some extent between 0.0 and 1.0. Or, it’s absolutely true that some parameter of it likes between 0.0 and 1.0. That prompts the question “how do we get that number?” Which in this specific case seems meaningless and unanswerable.
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There’s other ways of resolving a paradox of a statement and its negation both being importantly true. There’s no general method. One needs to dig into the specifics. In this case, one should ask “what does ‘making sense’ mean? How, when, and why does the world ‘make sense’?”
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This feels like a restatement of my mantra that several narratives/accounts of a phenomenon may contradict each other but all still capture a part of the truth.
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Yes, that’s a
to “meta-rationality”!
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Isn't this well-covered in any phil program featuring the pragmatists (Dewey, Rorty, Taylor)?
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