I’ll just respond to the easy part of this for now.
I had read your comment thread on Realism about Rationality a while back, and I was under the impression that your stance was something like “rationality is as real as liberalism” or something like that. A relatively simple backbone in the same ballpark as probability theory, utility theory etc. seems way more realist than that.
That’s not what I said. Because it takes ages to scroll down to comments and I’m on my phone, I can’t easily link to the relevant comments, but basically I said that rationality is probably as formalisable as electromagnetism, but that theories as precise as that of liberalism can still be reasoned about and built on.
I’ll just respond to the easy part of this for now.
That’s not what I said. Because it takes ages to scroll down to comments and I’m on my phone, I can’t easily link to the relevant comments, but basically I said that rationality is probably as formalisable as electromagnetism, but that theories as precise as that of liberalism can still be reasoned about and built on.
That’s fair. I didn’t actually quite understand what your position was and was trying to clarify.