Rex Kerr
Aug 11, 2023

But if you take the principle seriously, you don't have any basis upon which to reject the universal principle once you have established one. You're simply agreeing with me: don't actually have a universal principle. Just see how things go, and if they feel too wrong, change stuff. Yes, yes, try organizing around a "universal principle", but we know all along that this isn't actually what is guiding our evaluations. It's a simplification that we're trying out but the true principle(s) are unstated, and those are what we ultimately use to determine whether our stated principle was good.

Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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