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nyeah
4 days ago
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Guess I'm a rationalist now
But that common use of the word is ignorant nonsense. So, yes, someone is wrong on the internet. So what?
jltsiren
4 days ago
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The context here was a claim that reducibility is usually a goal of intellectual pursuits. Which is empirically false, as there are many academic fields with a negative view of reductionism.
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