Patterson In Pursuit: Philosophy | Politics | Religion
Hiding Behind Abstractions
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When two people disagree, their ideas are not automatically equally plausible. Some ideas are superior than others. Proposition X is not equally reasonable as proposition Y simply because they are both propositions. I call this an "abstraction error", and you see it everywhere in the world of ideas. Cultures, ideas, political theories, epistemologies - we cannot evaluate them in the abstract. We have to dive into the concrete. Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe