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* Over-simplification - We must at all costs avoid over-simplification, which one might be tempted to call the occupational disease of philosophers if it were not their occupation. | * Over-simplification - We must at all costs avoid over-simplification, which one might be tempted to call the occupational disease of philosophers if it were not their occupation. (see [[How to Do Things with Words]]) | ||
* '''Reverberant doubt''' - an amazing and disturbing slide from certain restraint to certain pushing? It is a cascade, a stampede, in which the tiniest flicker of a doubt has become amplified into the gravest avalanche of doubt. And the brighter you are, the more quickly and clearly you see what there is to fear. A bunch of amiable slowpokes might well be more likely to unanimously refrain and get the big payoff than a bunch of razor-sharp logicians who all think perversely recursively reverberantly. It's that smartness to see that initial flicker of a doubt that triggers the whole avalanche and sends rationality a-tumblin' into the abyss. (see [[Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern]]) | |||
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- Over-simplification - We must at all costs avoid over-simplification, which one might be tempted to call the occupational disease of philosophers if it were not their occupation. (see How to Do Things with Words)
- Reverberant doubt - an amazing and disturbing slide from certain restraint to certain pushing? It is a cascade, a stampede, in which the tiniest flicker of a doubt has become amplified into the gravest avalanche of doubt. And the brighter you are, the more quickly and clearly you see what there is to fear. A bunch of amiable slowpokes might well be more likely to unanimously refrain and get the big payoff than a bunch of razor-sharp logicians who all think perversely recursively reverberantly. It's that smartness to see that initial flicker of a doubt that triggers the whole avalanche and sends rationality a-tumblin' into the abyss. (see Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern)