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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There are a few issues as far as I'm concerned. Your nonstandard use of "rationality" to mean formal, strictly systematic reasoning threw me off for quite a while. I assume this has to do with your background in AI? I'd wager it's not what most people would mean by the word.
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Yes, as the Bay Rats have increasingly been noticing, there’s no coherent thing people in general mean by “rationality,” and this causes problems. OTOH, this isn’t specific to “rationality,” it’s just a problem with words. Not clear why it should be any worse in this case?
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Maybe my perspective is useful, because I came to your stuff as a fairly blank slate. I am a scientist, rationality seems to be the way I solve problems & gain understanding, but I've read a bit of Kahneman & know that's not the whole picture. 1/
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I had to read quite far into your stuff, David, before I understood what you were trying to say. I initially had a lot of resistance to your criticisms of rationality because I couldn't see what was on the other side of nebulosity. 2/
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Perhaps saying what meta-rationalism is *not* (explicitly) would help? Like "The Romantics thought X, but that too wasn't quite right because..." or "The reader may interpret this as advocating anti-realism, subjectivism, etc., but it is not those things because..."
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Yup! Here’s a bit from the Eggplant book where I do that:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1079802460124766215 …
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There’s a kind of law that no amount of rhetorical positioning is sufficient to preclude a misunderstanding among those inclined to it, particularly when the misunderstanding is strong attractor in cognitive space.
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"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." (Karl Popper)
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