@david_kenneth_d In day-to-day life our models are usually well-calibrated enough that we can pretend they're objectively true, & not die.
@david_kenneth_d Here is something important about recognizing nebulosity that I don't think came across in discussion:
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@david_kenneth_d But when you get into insight-porn topics, there's a lot of fake paradoxes that come from nothing deeper than trying to...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@david_kenneth_d ...use concepts past their boundaries. One example: a lot of creationist arguments amount to reifying "species".Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@david_kenneth_d Species are moderately well-bounded at any given time--there are lots of weird wrinkles butyou can tell a dog from a cat.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@david_kenneth_d But species are *not* well-separated when you look over evolutionary time scales. Cats and dogs ARE the same thing...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@david_kenneth_d ...in the sense that if you look back about 42 million years, it's one continuous tree of descent to a common ancestor.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@david_kenneth_d Concepts aren't real things, they're tools for navigating a frame, and separating them from their frame is problematic.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@david_kenneth_d If your concepts are well-calibrated, it saves time to have faith in them...until you switch frames. -
@St_Rev Doesn't sound like your switching "frames", just applying different concepts. If you have to "switch" frames, I'd say: inconsistent.
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