On the one hand, there's a lot of garbage social-science literature on this & many other topics. On the other hand, just because something is difficult to identify reliably with the tools of social science does not mean it does not exist.https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/1165291968194387968 …
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"My cousin's friend said..." is a powerful force, to be sure. Everybody has a cousin!
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Free gifts of the past. S.I. Hayakawa.
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So, you're saying that you can just make shit up whenever you want and it suits you, great. Definitely nobody else can do that, anytime they want. Cool maxim.
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Um, no, he’s saying you CANNOT just make shit up, but must rather refer to old sources that, collectively, “know” more than we do. Hayek a/w/a Burke, classic libertarianism a/w/a traditionalism.
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Sounds like principled anti-intellectualism.
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Some passages in Burke read that way, but alternative is to do philosophy- not just snips from quick-read quotables your were assigned in college, but seriously Doing Philosophy. Most people can’t; hence, role of “prescription.”
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This basic set of shared tradition added to more personal experience is the base for common sense. Common sense should be known as common intuition.
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George Clooney with the rebuttal...https://twitter.com/thederekseguin/status/1160936986275958787?s=21 …
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