It doesn’t matter if a discussion is sympathetic or not, that’s not relevant to the problem I’m pointing out. Theism is not even an outgroup, it’s too alien and far away to play that role.
Anti-epistemology is not a label for bad reasoning or disapproval of particular cultures, it’s the specific phenomenon of memes and norms that promote systematically incorrect reasoning, where certain factual questions end up getting resolved to false answers, resisting argument or natural intellectual exploration, certain topics or claims can’t be discussed or thought about, and meaningless nothings hog all attention. It is the concept for the vectors of irrationality, the foundation of its staying power.
It doesn’t matter if a discussion is sympathetic or not, that’s not relevant to the problem I’m pointing out. Theism is not even an outgroup, it’s too alien and far away to play that role.
Anti-epistemology is not a label for bad reasoning or disapproval of particular cultures, it’s the specific phenomenon of memes and norms that promote systematically incorrect reasoning, where certain factual questions end up getting resolved to false answers, resisting argument or natural intellectual exploration, certain topics or claims can’t be discussed or thought about, and meaningless nothings hog all attention. It is the concept for the vectors of irrationality, the foundation of its staying power.