Re: Myth of the Given

Posted by gepr on Aug 21, 2020; 4:07pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Myth-of-the-Given-tp7598392p7598429.html

That's ridiculous! >8^D You can't take "as if P" seriously without taking P seriously. What you'll end up with are spies and moles, bad faith actors, pretending to argue but really just building strawmen and hiding in the corners of the conversation trying to sabotage any good faith attempts to find the truth.


On 8/21/20 8:28 AM, Eric Charles wrote:
> A totally sensible position: "We can treat just about anything /_as if_/ it is text, and given the sophistication of our ability to deal with text,  that should lead to some insights."
>
> A totally bullshit position that no one should ever have tolerated for a minute: "Everything is text."


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