As I’m the one being answered to, a bit of context. A long discussion started on the #philosophy channel of the Slack group. For reasons irrelevant to the present discussion, I’m continuing the exchange on the website linked above.
I’m currently writing an answer to this. I do not claim to represent the LW community, though I’m trying my best to reflect the broad concepts and reasoning outlined in the Sequences, notably. Please correct any blatant inaccuracies in my prose, if you think it worthwhile.
FYI to everyone: The comments on empiricism and instrumentalism (the first link) are basically impersonal and apply to views of many LW participants. The material in the second link is more mixed, but probably some of the comments apply to you, dear reader.
As I’m the one being answered to, a bit of context. A long discussion started on the #philosophy channel of the Slack group. For reasons irrelevant to the present discussion, I’m continuing the exchange on the website linked above.
I’m currently writing an answer to this. I do not claim to represent the LW community, though I’m trying my best to reflect the broad concepts and reasoning outlined in the Sequences, notably. Please correct any blatant inaccuracies in my prose, if you think it worthwhile.
FYI to everyone: The comments on empiricism and instrumentalism (the first link) are basically impersonal and apply to views of many LW participants. The material in the second link is more mixed, but probably some of the comments apply to you, dear reader.