Rex Kerr
Sep 19, 2024

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If people fully apprehended the history of humanity, then I would agree with you wholly.

As it is, the big and common error is typically in failing to recognize how revolutionary scientific epistemology has been, and the smaller and less frequent error is to worship it when one otherwise would have been clear-headed. (Of course worship undermines the epistemic value when it is widespread--but you can solve that by also pushing in the +science direction, just like you can with the science-is-overvalued-just-one-way-among-many direction.)

So while I might go through and agree with each of your points one by one, I suspect that sociologically your answer is not conducive to tackling the main problems we have when trying to understand things despite it exhorting us to do so.

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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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