I came here looking for a Rationality Quotes thread to quote that in. :)
I’m especially sensitive to it because I spent a lot of time last year reading postmodernist literary theory, which rejects logic in favor of rhetoric. They support theories that have impressive-sounding words because postmodernist theory says the point of theory is to have fun rather than to understand things.
We don’t have an open quotes thread on the main page, but this made me chuckle:
“mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.” from Nassim Taleb in
http://www.thehindu.com/books/%E2%80%98Trump-makes-sense-to-a-grocery-store-owner%E2%80%99/article17109351.ece
I came here looking for a Rationality Quotes thread to quote that in. :)
I’m especially sensitive to it because I spent a lot of time last year reading postmodernist literary theory, which rejects logic in favor of rhetoric. They support theories that have impressive-sounding words because postmodernist theory says the point of theory is to have fun rather than to understand things.
Do they really admit they are just trolling? :O
In literary theory that might well be true :-/