Hiding Behind Abstractions
"That's Just Your Idea!"
August 22, 20169m 44s
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Show Notes
When two people disagree, their ideas are not automatically equally plausible. Some ideas are superior than others.
Proposition X is not equally reasonable as proposition Y simply because they are both propositions. I call this an "abstraction error", and you see it everywhere in the world of ideas.
Cultures, ideas, political theories, epistemologies - we cannot evaluate them in the abstract. We have to dive into the concrete.
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