I really enjoyed it! There's a lot of griping about his academic rivalries so there are definitely parts you can skip through, but there are some great insights throughout
I think the really interesting part here is how language and thought cleave things apart, when reality is actually continuous. It's almost like we need a new language that somehow doesn't do that.
Metaphysics: what, ultimately, is the nature of reality?
Actuality - the universe as our is beyond the perception of a mind, is undifferentiated stuff, infinite in time, space, and scale. Reality it's, to us, our unique embodied perspective on each of those three physical dimensions, or externally, the communicated more-or-less consensus version. All things are real as a pattern in a mind and some of them have an external referent.
Epistemology: where does our knowledge of reality come from?
Replication. Knowledge is justified belief sufficient to accept a particular fact or take a particular action. There are two ways to obtain that justification, empirical probability and logical necessity. Logic is relationships that always replicate and as close to The Truth as it's possible to get.
Ontology: how do we break the whole of reality down into smaller concepts and categories?
Ontology is the nature of being itself, answered with the first question.
Fantastic read, thank you! Do you recommend Feyerabend's farewell to reason?
I really enjoyed it! There's a lot of griping about his academic rivalries so there are definitely parts you can skip through, but there are some great insights throughout
I think the really interesting part here is how language and thought cleave things apart, when reality is actually continuous. It's almost like we need a new language that somehow doesn't do that.
I think this is a fundamental property of language. You can't express an infinite amount of information with a finite sentence!
A very interesting read, thanks for writing it!
I’m curious about the conspiracy that led your friend to wear tin-foil beanies (don’t worry, I won’t read about it while on psychedelics 😉)
Something to do with wifi? EMF? 5g? All of the above? I struggled to follow it
Metaphysics: what, ultimately, is the nature of reality?
Actuality - the universe as our is beyond the perception of a mind, is undifferentiated stuff, infinite in time, space, and scale. Reality it's, to us, our unique embodied perspective on each of those three physical dimensions, or externally, the communicated more-or-less consensus version. All things are real as a pattern in a mind and some of them have an external referent.
Epistemology: where does our knowledge of reality come from?
Replication. Knowledge is justified belief sufficient to accept a particular fact or take a particular action. There are two ways to obtain that justification, empirical probability and logical necessity. Logic is relationships that always replicate and as close to The Truth as it's possible to get.
Ontology: how do we break the whole of reality down into smaller concepts and categories?
Ontology is the nature of being itself, answered with the first question.
What else would you like to understand?
Immersive reading, but before all this talks you must prove the logic itself or say that your statements are in a closed logic system.
If you claim the truth, of course.
But the whole essay is an instruction manual on how to _escape_ closed systems of logic!
I don't claim that what I say here is "true" so much as I claim that it's useful.
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