Effective ritual generates the cognitive-epistemic phenomenon of sacredness @Spivonomist @hamandcheese
@hamandcheese but in practice, doing the rituals makes you know the sacredness at a pre-conscious level, even if you don't "believe"
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@hamandcheese westernized atheist Vietnamese kids just know not to put your chopsticks straight up in your bowl because it's like the... -
@hamandcheese incense you burn for the dead - without being able to articulate it as a rule or even being conscious of it
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@sarahdoingthing Disagree. I think we have to be cognitivist about norms, including sacredness, since they're types of practical reason. -
@hamandcheese I've moved away from philosophy toward ethnomethodology as I've gotten older - 1 more reply
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