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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Yes exactly. It gets harder and harder not to invisibly embed values in supposedly “pure” truths.
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It takes courage to draw a line in the sand and decide for yourself where politics begins to dominate
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I’d say that’s why it’s important to be always on guard for institutional failures and biases.
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And equally important to be on guard against tendency to anthropomorphize everything
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I see ideologues of all sorts as lacking courage to decide that larger-than-human truths exist and begin somewhere
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From a certain point of view, this is exactly what the scientific method aspires towards and why it’s revolutionary.
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