Matt Arnold @matt@penguicon.social

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Probabilism, Part One"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/probabilism-part-one

Probability theory seems an attractive foundation for rationalism—but it is not up to the job. https://metarationality.com/probabilism   Leaving the casino - Probabilistic rationalism encourages you to view the whole world as a gigantic casino—but mostly it is not like that. https://metarationality.com/probabilism-applicability   What probability can’t do - If probability theory were an epistemology, we’d wan

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: When Will You Go Bald?

“Shades of gray” is sometimes a good way to think about nebulosity—the world’s inherent fuzziness—but not always.

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/when-will-you-go-bald

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: Are Eggplants Fruits?

Formal methods formally require impossibly precise definitions of terms. How do we use them effectively without that?

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/are-eggplants-fruits

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Propositions, Hypothesis Generation, and Unknown Unknowns"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/propositions-hypothesis-generation-and-unknown-unknowns

Three short chapters from In The Cells Of The Eggplant.   What can you believe? - Propositions are whatever sort of thing it is you can believe. Nothing can play that role; so we need a different understanding of belief.   https://metarationality.com/propositions   Where did you get that idea in the first place? - Rationalism does not explain where hypotheses, theori

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A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Is This An Eggplant Which I See Before Me?"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/is-this-an-eggplant-which-i-see-before-me

Rationalist theories assume perception delivers an objective description of the world to rationality. It can’t, and doesn’t try to. https://metarationality.com/rationalist-perception   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee:   https://www.buyme

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: Reductio Ad Reductionem.

Reduction is a powertool of rationality, but reductionism can’t work as a general theory; most rationality is not reduction.

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/reductio-ad-reductionem

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: The Truth Of The Matter.

Formal rationality requires absolute truths, but those are rare in the eggplant-sized world. How do we do rationality without them?

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/the-truth-of-the-matter

Mentioned in this episode, is the hilarious and brilliant "What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts?" by David Stove.

http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html

In the third part of this episode: The value of meaninglessness.

Recognizing that some statements are neither true nor false was a major advance in early 20th-century rationalism.

https://metarationality.com/meaninglessness

In the second part of this episode: Depends upon what the meaning of the word “is” is.

Formal logic successfully addresses important defects in traditional, Aristotelian logic, but cannot deal with contextuality.

https://metarationality.com/formal-logic

On the first part of this episode: The world is everything that is the case.

Aristotelian logic was mistaken both in details and overall conception, yet its key ideas survive in contemporary rationalism.

https://metarationality.com/Aristotelian-logic

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobooks #podcast: Logic.

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/logic

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: Positive and Logical.

Early 20th-century logical positivism was the last serious rationalism. Better understandings of rationality learn from its mistakes.

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/positive-and-logical

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A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Objects, Objectively"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/objects-objectively

Rational methods assume objects are objectively separable; but they aren’t. How do we use rationality effectively anyway? https://metarationality.com/objective-objects   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold  

On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobooks #podcast: Rationalism's Responses To Trouble

Rationalism responds to its failures, in the face of nebulosity, by making more complicated formal theories.

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/rationalisms-responses-to-trouble

In the second part of this episode: Defining the subject matter: rationality, rationalism, reasonableness, and meta-rationality.

https://metarationality.com/rationalism-definitions