Logical positivism attempted to rescue scientistic rationalism from two deep wounds: general relativity and the crisis of the foundations of mathematics. It succeeded in rethinking science in a way that made relativity acceptable. Unfortunately, that was overshadowed by events…
You are missing the distinction between rationality and rationalism. Rationalism and “legibility” are more-or-less the same thing.
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OK fair enough! I got ya. Do you have any thoughts as to why rationalism/legibility had its ~50 years of glory?
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The Eggplant explains why systematic rationality works when it does. (In short, because we do non-rational work to make it work.) Why it worked so well during modernity, then stopped, is complex and we probably won’t fully understand it for decades. But:https://meaningness.com/systematic-mode
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