"Live players" vs. "Dead players" (THREAD)
Since reading this distinction two weeks ago, I've thought about it more or less every day. It's a simple distinction, but it explains so much.
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Interesting. I came up with an isomorphic concept for my next book. Here’s my email note to myself on that:
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I’m gonna need that unpacked a little (or a lot)... but I imagine that’s what the book is for?
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tldr: logical positivism is just wrong. Falsificationism is not even wrong, but gestures at an adjacent sound epistemolgy: a truth is like a log of experimental tinkering with an idea. There’s no such thing as “falsifiable in principle”. You’re either tweaking it or it’s dead.
Embodied truths like an engineered artifact or a publishing medium can’t be true or false like propositions but they can be alive or dead, which is almost the same thing. You’re either tinkering with it, or it’s dead/untrue.
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In Pratchett’s Raising Steam, the character Dick Simnel, who invents the steam locomotive (fictionalized George Stephenson), keeps tinkering with an improving his first prototype even as newer/bigger production models help build out the industrial revolution on Discworld.
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What best to ask of a proposition during an iterative tweaking process:
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broke: ‘Is this true?’
woke: ‘In what ways might this be true?’
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