That’s a challenging position because there are multiple internally consistent but mutually contradictory versions of some bits of math
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Imagining humans, even white Christian males, invented the Mandelbrot set or Godel's paradox is giving ourselves too much credit
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I’m enough of an institutionalist that I don’t care about whether those things are “true”. I care how knowledge is created & propagated
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that's an honest position. I wish more people were as honest. I am the opposite. I care about new truths, not how they're found
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If you care about new truths you should care about how they’re found. Chasing “pure reason” you can cripple actual engines of knowledge
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My objection is to sheer bad faith. It's like claiming 2+2=4 is suspect because of who said it.
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Not that it’s suspect but that it’s incomplete without wider context. To which mathematicians would agree.
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Incomplete for some things like institution design or reform. Not for everything.
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You can check a logical proof for yourself in many cases and use it, no appeal to authority or context needed
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yes, as you get closer to human affairs, things get more culturally relative.
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Math is a special case. It’s whole purpose is to be internally consistent. That’s why the referent argument comes up.


