but if your system is meant to be eternal and encompassing, and it does break down at the edges . . . maybe the center's not long for the world either that doesn't mean it's not a useful system im gonna use newtonian mechanics in everyday life even though it's "wrong"
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The problem of "wrong systems" is addressed in different ways by "Elephant in the Brain", by samzdat's Uruk Series, and by Sarah on ribbonfarm. Some "wrong" systems claim to satisfy certain needs, but actually satisfy different ones than claimed. Seehttps://samzdat.com/2017/06/19/the-use-and-abuse-of-witchdoctors-for-life/ …
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then I don't know what thing you're referring to, because postrationalists are mostly interested in discussing psychology/cognition and not ontology
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how does "classical liberalism" and "democracy" correspond to "reality" and not to "our collective understanding of how human social behavior and cognition works" (aka psychology)? you can't hug a governmental body
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postrationalists (as far as I'm aware) typically take the stance that the structure of our brains determines the nature of reality to a very high degree -- this is probably a radical stance in the philosophy literature, but is also a not-uncommon rationalist stance.
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say "texture" then
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