There is a pervasive pattern of discussion about “rationalism” versus “post-rationalism” versus “meta-rationalism” and various other ways of trying to carve reasoning up into movements or communities or ideologies. This is all a mistake.
My most concise explanation of what “meta-rationality” means, and how it relates to “rationality” (as I use that word), is here: https://meaningness.com/eggplant/terms#rationalism …pic.twitter.com/TvBOrrIM5I
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Ya. I find this to just be academic expansion. I don’t find these extra words more precise. They take an idea that is fairly simple and make it seem complex by trying to analyze it into parts. But it is simple.
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“Thinking well” is, unfortunately, not simple or well-defined. (Assuming that is simple and well-defined is exactly the rationalist failure mode.) Figuring out how to think better requires making many additional distinctions, imo. This is one of them.
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