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Hiding Behind Abstractions

Hiding Behind Abstractions

FromPatterson in Pursuit


Hiding Behind Abstractions

FromPatterson in Pursuit

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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Aug 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When two people disagree, their ideas are not automatically equally plausible. Some ideas are superior than others.  Proposition X is not equally reasonable as proposition Y simply because they are both propositions. I call this an "abstraction error", and you see it everywhere in the world of ideas. Cultures, ideas, political theories, epistemologies - we cannot evaluate them in the abstract. We have to dive into the concrete. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe
Released:
Aug 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Interviews with intellectuals from across the globe. Exploring philosophy, politics, religion, and rationalism. Steve Patterson is an independent philosopher currently traveling the world to interview people in the pursuit of truth. Topics include logic and epistemology, skepticism, metaphysics, ethics, science and religion, truth, Christianity, Buddhism, atheism, culture, economics, the philosophy of mathematics, and every other topic that's important to humans.