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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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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Aug 2019
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      Outwardly, an academic field claims as much territory as possible, but inside, it narrows its scope to a particular subset of phenomena, and methods of treating them, which allows it reduce the work to a safe routine of minimal-publishable-units production.

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      An academic field then *must* attack outsiders addressing the broad phenomenon it supposedly covers—because their investigations would reveal the field’s actual narrow scope, limited methods, and dubious foundational assumptions.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Aug 2019
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      Linguistics in the second half of the 20th century is an extreme example. It claimed “the study of language,” but narrowed to arguments about notational variants for formal grammars that were supposed to account for the syntactic grammaticality judgements of expert linguists.

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      Linguistics in that era ruthlessly suppressed anyone who dared discuss any form of empirical data, which Chomsky defined out of existence as “performance”; or who wanted to address actual language use.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Aug 2019
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      If you wanted to learn anything about language during that period, you had to do it in the psychology or sociology department. But they had their own narrow methodological shibboleths, and there was no field that broadly addressed the phenomenon.

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Aug 2019
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      “We already have a field explaining sci/tech progress” would be more plausible if advocates cited one of them, rather than eight. It would also be more plausible if those fields advocated practical, concrete actions that would accelerate progress…

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Aug 2019
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      I don’t know the primary literature well, although I’ve read some of it. Generally I like it, but my impression is that later developments pretty much overtook the whole thing. IOW I don’t know of something they did that wasn’t done more thoroughly later. Did I miss something?

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Aug 2019
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      Yes, and late Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, and interactionist/e-word psychology, &...

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 5 Aug 2019
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          Those are no joke!

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