Now that I’ve described my confusion, a few ways I could resolve it:https://twitter.com/TWakalix/status/1154909173085286401 …
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it's a social group distinction indicator with a corresponding epiphenomenal aesthetic objection i.e. postrats are hotter
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unambiguously correct
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“Beauty is truth and truth beauty” Jokes aside: What else could possibly motivate the desire for categories to be neat and clean? There are no practicalities here. What non-aesthetic objection is there to grue and bleen?
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(Where grue is “green before X and blue after X”, which cleaves reality against the grain.)
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Wait. What’s “it”? I assumed you meant the confusion but you could equally well mean post-rationalism.
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postrationalism as an aesthetic objection to rationalism yes
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