If an intellectual community suppresses attempts to promote its object-level epistemological failures to attention and cause appropriate meta-level updates to happen, then it’s going to stop having an epistemology before long.
That’s certainly true and a problem. If you have some ideas about how to avoid it (in this case or more generally) I’d be interested to read them; feel free to post in meta with some thoughts/ideas, or write them as comments in the last meta thread on this topic.
If an intellectual community suppresses attempts to promote its object-level epistemological failures to attention and cause appropriate meta-level updates to happen, then it’s going to stop having an epistemology before long.
I’ve re-posted the question about why this inadequacy under Meta
That’s certainly true and a problem. If you have some ideas about how to avoid it (in this case or more generally) I’d be interested to read them; feel free to post in meta with some thoughts/ideas, or write them as comments in the last meta thread on this topic.