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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 10 Nov 2019
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      No coincidence the postmodern era began shortly after logical positivism collapsed. Rationalism was the foundational ideology of modernity. Without that, the essential chain of justification broke, and the ship of modernity was wrecked on the stormy seas of meaning.pic.twitter.com/F0m2yM2M9u

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      Science still works, some of the time, of course. Rationality is still better than irrationality. Why? Stubborn clinging to the wreck of rationalism renders asking that question impossible—much less answering it.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      We’re still floundering in the storm of postmodern irrationalism, announced by the NYT 100 years ago today. We can do better. We can rebuild the flotsam of a broken modernity into new, sea-worthy watercraft.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1193573460103946240 …

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      🧵 100 years ago today, the New York Times announced the death of rationalism. pic.twitter.com/0z9rqicWfB
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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      Follow-up to this thread. Several replies objected that relativity couldn’t have been a shock, because science consists of replacing incomplete approximate theories with successively better ones. >

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      This is not at all how science was understood in 1900. Science in those days found absolute, eternal, exact Truths. The “successively better theories” story, taught in high school now, was invented in the 20th century precisely to account for relativity and quantum.

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    6. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 10 Nov 2019
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      The reason I'm pushing back against this David is that physics had already gone through a few versions of this. EM was a constant ferment from the first (extremely mechanical) version of Maxwell to when he threw out the mechanical superstructure.

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    7. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 10 Nov 2019
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      The electron (and atoms), statistical mechanics, X-rays, inconsistency in black-body radiation, Michelson-Morley. There was a lot of stuff that didn't fit the Newton world view building up through at least the 1880s.

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    8. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 10 Nov 2019
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      Relativity was a big deal outside physics. But inside it was more of the same. IF you understand physics, Planck's law is just as weird, or discrete spectral lines.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      I think you are applying a contemporary scientific worldview (specifically a Kuhnian one) that physicists of the 1800s simply didn’t have.

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    10. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 10 Nov 2019
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      I wonder if you are concentrating on what “philosophers of science” and suchlike thought and said, whereas I’m concentrating on the actual scientists? People like Maxwell or Boltzmann.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      I am discussing the impact on modernity, ie the overall structure of culture & society.

      12:42 PM - 10 Nov 2019
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        2. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 10 Nov 2019
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          Sure. Hence my point a few tweets earlier that we need to distinguish popular claims as claims, not reality. That’s really been my point from the start, that the NYT was printing click bait with its “scientists agog” if by scientists we mean the best physicists.

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        3. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 10 Nov 2019
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          I absolutely agree that there is an interesting mass culture story,and I agree with most of your elements of it. But there is a PARALLEL story through physics/math/science, that’s superficially similar but different; and I don’t want the two confused.

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