There are almost no just-plain-true (or false) facts in the macroscopic natural world. We’ve engineered our environment to support deductive reasoning, which doesn’t work in nature. Text from Elijah Millgram’s _Hard Truths_pic.twitter.com/e6HLMSjpb3
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For modern rationalists, that's almost a strawman. Rationalists are informed by their science, and modern science understands uncertainty much better, not just in the social domain but also in life sciences. And we can *reason* on uncertainty with statistics.
“True enough for this purpose” is an ontological matter, not an epistemic one. The issue is not uncertainty, it is indefiniteness. Rationalists frequently make this move, of changing the subject to uncertainty (for which they have a story) when the topic is indefiniteness.
So dead guys?
Oh, no, plenty of them still around. I’m arguing with a persistent one on twitter right now.
I love the original tweet but I think it is deeply wrong to characterize Plato and Kant in this way. especially Plato
Hmm. For Plato, I guess the issue would be how his “participation in a Form” was supposed to work, which we don’t know. The theory of Forms overall seems designed to make everything clear-cut, though?
Also on your other point: I think it’s time to found a Buddhist sect that requires that you pass a calculus exam before you are admitted.
I passed a calculus exam once, in 1985. Never again. No exams in my Buddhist sect.
Godel didn’t believe in empirical science. He believed it could only predict outcomes of experiments, but contained no ‘real truths’ about the world. He thought the laws of logic and the results of mathematical intuition were the only things that can be called true.
Yes. That is a species of rationalism, I take it? Particularly in the historically earlier sense in which rationalism was opposed to empiricism.
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