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Reverse Platonism is its own ideology, with its own ideological implications. You can only be so agnostic about anything.

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jordan bates

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Jul 28, 2017

as soon as you commit to a single model or ideology in a given domain, you're unable to see that domain w fresh eyes or thru other lenses twitter.com/_jordan_bates/

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The problem with the belief that truth rests on agnosticism is that it is in itself a determinative belief, not an agnostic one.

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Agnosticism applied judiciously (particularly to things you can't possibly know) is a useful tool. It's a rather impoverished belief system.

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you need working models and functional beliefs, sure, but you can at root be agnostic about virtually everything, it seems to me

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i don't agree that agnosticism (if that's what you mean by Reverse Platonism) is necessarily an ideology... "i don't know" /=/ an ideology