Never have I been so confused with anachronisms in methods of reasoning. The characters can’t explain counting or equal quantities, but can explain the scientific method, fitness metrics, advanced demagogic methods, etc.
Trial and error procedures can lead you down quite a few wrong paths if you don’t understand statistics and causal relations, and it would be interesting to see how it would make the argument develop.
My conjecture is that the abillity for characters to explain counting, equal quantities, and causal relations has been deliberately removed to allow those latter processes (with particular emphasis on the scientific method) to be used, to illustrate the general foundation of empiricism without needing to resort to an actually difficult problem where there might be genuine ambiguity about the answers. The lack of a common ground about causal reasoning and reality allows the process to described from the ground up, instead of resting on previous vague intuitions about reality and beliefs.
Never have I been so confused with anachronisms in methods of reasoning. The characters can’t explain counting or equal quantities, but can explain the scientific method, fitness metrics, advanced demagogic methods, etc. Trial and error procedures can lead you down quite a few wrong paths if you don’t understand statistics and causal relations, and it would be interesting to see how it would make the argument develop.
My conjecture is that the abillity for characters to explain counting, equal quantities, and causal relations has been deliberately removed to allow those latter processes (with particular emphasis on the scientific method) to be used, to illustrate the general foundation of empiricism without needing to resort to an actually difficult problem where there might be genuine ambiguity about the answers. The lack of a common ground about causal reasoning and reality allows the process to described from the ground up, instead of resting on previous vague intuitions about reality and beliefs.