Timeline for Should reducing and simplifying explanations be a core aspect of Philosophical practice?
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| Feb 9 at 12:14 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | The exciting thing in programming is that you can actually get down to how the computer really works, what the "words mean" so to speak. But I think if someone managed to do that with our minds, then, "we could have told him he'd only be disappointed." | |
| Feb 5 at 13:07 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | Yes. Yes. Thank you, this is a very good point. We should carefully break down even words, like ass/u/me, right? :-) Perhaps this is part of my complaint, that the words we try to use are not well-defined enough, so we must use more of them, like using lots of putty to fix a leaky ship instead of just welding. (Analogies are fraught with peril, too.) I think that people should actually understand words like 'electricity' but I'll never win that one. We could just write on the mirror, "I don't actually know anything", read it every morning and then go out humbly each day. Not betting on it. | |
| Feb 5 at 9:02 | history | edited | armand | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 5 at 5:07 | history | answered | armand | CC BY-SA 4.0 |