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.
On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobooks #podcast: 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.
Let's give a big penguicon.social welcome to @Iris_wombat, @SkipfordJ, and @bobonthenet!
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
@pkemner I love hearing this! Thanks Paul!
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
In the first part of this episode: The hope that systematic rationality can reliably provide certainty, understanding, and control fails when it encounters nebulosity.
https://metarationality.com/rationalism
On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobooks #podcast: Taking Rationality Seriously.
A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Reference And Identity"
https://fluidity.libsyn.com/reference-and-identity
Reference: rationalism’s reality problem - The correspondence theory of truth doesn’t work by metaphysical magic. We must do the work to make it work—by any means necessary. https://metarationality.com/rational-reference The National Omelet Registry - Rationalism implicitly or explicitly assumes that every object in the universe has a unique ID number. https://metarationality.com/identity You can supp
Also on this episode: A structural overview of the meta-rationality book In The Cells Of The Eggplant.
On this episode of the Fluidity #audiobooks #podcast: A Credibility Revolution In The Post-Truth Era.
Why meta-rationality matters for progress: leveling up science, technology, and society, even as they are unraveling.
https://fluidity.libsyn.com/a-credibility-revolution-in-the-post-truth-era
The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0 by Peter Limberg of The Stoa
https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb
The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0 by Peter Limberg of The Stoa
https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb
The Bridge: Rationality to "Woo" by Evan McMullen on The Stoa
Also mentioned in this episode: Rationalism Before The Sequences by Eric S Raymond
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qc7P2NwfxQMC3hdgm/rationalism-before-the-sequences
Many people asked me "what do half of those words mean?" I created a glossary. But there were a few terms I needed David Chapman's help with, such as the frame problem.
https://fluidityforum.org/glossary
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