Where can i read the rest of this?
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It’s draft text from a book I’m writing, but the one I described here goes into it in detail:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1200838764328673280 …
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To my ear, "decontextualization" is more accurate and less click-baity than "meaninglessness". Ian McGilchrist makes this point in his book "The Master and His Emissary", which is on the two modes of attending the world all mammals seem to share
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Poincare was peculiarly eloquent in expressing precisely this point.
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It seems all you mean is abstraction. Once something is abstract, you can substitute meaningless things in. But each case of abstraction is meaningful and so is its application. Your argument appears entirely meaningless.
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This is wonderful!
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The big takeaway— rationality is not anti-meaning. Rather that meaning plays no role in whether or not a thing is valid.
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Dammit, you got me sideways thinking again! From my own stuff it looks like knowing what to ignore is huge. Don't look now, don't look there.
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Cf. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.
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Unfortunately, our brains have no rationality module which would enable us to think logically (“if we just put cognitive biases aside”).
To think logically, we have to use pencil and paper, or a computer.