Curious if you have work with either of the following properties:
You expect me to get something out of it by engaging with it;
You expect my comments to be able to engage with the “core” or “edge” of your thinking (“core” meaning foundational assumptions with high impact on the rest of your thinking; “edge” meaning the parts you are more actively working out), as opposed to useful mainly for didactic revisions / fixing details of presentation.
Also curious what you mean by “positivism” here—not because it’s too vague a term, just because I’m curious how you would state it.
For (1), my read is that you already get a lot of the core ideas I want people to understand, so possibly not. Maybe when I write chapter 8 there will be some interesting stuff there, since that will be roughly an expansion of this post to cover lots of misc things I think are important consequences or implications of the core ideas of the book.
For (2), I’m not quite sure where the edge of my thinking lies these days since I’m more in a phase of territory exploration rather than map drawing where I’m trying to get a bunch of data that will help me untangle things I can’t yet point to cleanly. Best I can say is that I know I don’t intuitively grasp my own embedded nature, even if I understand it theoretically, such that some sense that I am separate from the world permeates my ontology. I’m not really trying to figure anything out, though, just explain the bits I already grasp intuitively.
I think of positivism as the class of theories of truth that claim that the combination of logic and observation can lead to the discovery of universal ontology (universal in the sense that it’s the same for everyone and independent of any observer or what they care for). There’s a lot more I could say potentially about the most common positivist takes versus the most careful ones, but I’m not sure if there’s a need to go into that here.
Curious if you have work with either of the following properties:
You expect me to get something out of it by engaging with it;
You expect my comments to be able to engage with the “core” or “edge” of your thinking (“core” meaning foundational assumptions with high impact on the rest of your thinking; “edge” meaning the parts you are more actively working out), as opposed to useful mainly for didactic revisions / fixing details of presentation.
Also curious what you mean by “positivism” here—not because it’s too vague a term, just because I’m curious how you would state it.
For (1), my read is that you already get a lot of the core ideas I want people to understand, so possibly not. Maybe when I write chapter 8 there will be some interesting stuff there, since that will be roughly an expansion of this post to cover lots of misc things I think are important consequences or implications of the core ideas of the book.
For (2), I’m not quite sure where the edge of my thinking lies these days since I’m more in a phase of territory exploration rather than map drawing where I’m trying to get a bunch of data that will help me untangle things I can’t yet point to cleanly. Best I can say is that I know I don’t intuitively grasp my own embedded nature, even if I understand it theoretically, such that some sense that I am separate from the world permeates my ontology. I’m not really trying to figure anything out, though, just explain the bits I already grasp intuitively.
I think of positivism as the class of theories of truth that claim that the combination of logic and observation can lead to the discovery of universal ontology (universal in the sense that it’s the same for everyone and independent of any observer or what they care for). There’s a lot more I could say potentially about the most common positivist takes versus the most careful ones, but I’m not sure if there’s a need to go into that here.