Random thought on metaphor: in engineering, your "argument" is always grounded in a structure "beneath" your construction: the UI is grounded in code, which is grounded in the OS, which is grounded in the processor's logic, which is grounded in circuitry and ultimately physics.
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Hence in philosophy, one must both engineer a useful argument from the grounds beneath, and must ensure its ultimate connection with the heavens above, with transcendent, self-justifying truth.
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Of course, which transcendent truths people accept is another matter entirely, on which plenty of philosophy already exists (it seems to involve social authority and lived experience), but that's for another conversation.
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I like the idea of "rational aesthetics"... where did that term originate?
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I made the term up as a part of this thread, but you can think of certain mathematics as having an aesthetics (elegance and beauty in proofs, e.g.), and those properties seem related to the "quality of form" of a philosophical argument.
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