“Some find [me] overly reductionistic, but often provocative.” https://laeastsidermindful.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/mindfulness-2-0-the-next-wave-of-meditation-teachers/ … Suspect someone is using “reductionistic” wrongly?
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Replying to @Meaningness
Guessing “reductionism” here means “pointing out that attractive religiously-motivated ideas are factually wrong.” Scientism vs. Romanticism
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“Reductionism” is a sacred word that plays a major part in fringe ideologies, pro or con, but refers to nothing in the real world.
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“Moral relativism” is another example. Some people are passionately for or against it, but no one can actually explain what it means.
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@Meaningness Different people and societies have different moralities without being appreciable more or less deluded or dysfunctional.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@Meaningness that is a definition, but it seems obviously false when put that way. Some societies are evidently more functional.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@JaysonVirissimo@Meaningness By whose standards? (entire argument kicks up a meta level and repeats)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@JaysonVirissimo@Meaningness There are two objective standards one can deploy at this point: tautological (system X approves of system X)..2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@JaysonVirissimo@Meaningness or existential (adherents to system X are not all dead). Refusal to universalize is a coherent response IMO.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@JaysonVirissimo @Meaningness Well, that's 'moral relativism' right there. How do I know what fish enjoy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi#Relation_to_Zhuangzi …
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