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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Yes. That is a species of rationalism, I take it? Particularly in the historically earlier sense in which rationalism was opposed to empiricism.
My point was that he would say that reason is more applicable to natural science than it is to any ‘macroscopic concepts’ like Ohio and statehood. Macro things have more concepts, and therefore context involved, so reasoning becomes harder. If the justification for reasoning is
the results/insights that come from it, it’s clear that reasoning about ‘macro’ concepts, doesn’t lead much beyond reevaluating definitions to make the concepts which make it up more precise (less macro and closer to simple statements which can be reasoned with...math and logic)
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