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This event profoundly shaped our world, but it has never been explained clearly, afaik. My eggplant book tries; but only relatively briefly (~50 pages) because it’s just background to my actual topics. Wish I could recommend a good source instead.
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I should have been clearer about the logical positivists. They did think ordinary language didn't have objective meaning but thought it was possible to create language that did. They couldn't and postmodernism lies partly in the wake of that failure. ->
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I can safely say I never was. I had to run rationality in emulation mode throughout the hands-on tech decade of my life. It felt nearly as much like a social performance as going to temple with religious parents. More stimulating though. Math is fun in a way faking prayer is not.
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