Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy
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English - May 26, 2017 20:53 - 6 minutes - 4.24 MB - ★★★★ - 105 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality god islam libertarian mathematics religion science skeptic anarchism anarchist atheism Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What's more likely: a precise description of an ambiguous world, or an ambiguous description of a precise world?
This is the modernist fallacy: to think that conceptual blurriness correctly describes a blurry world.
To me, this is silly and irrational. Ambiguous theories are flawed; they aren't positive arguments for "true ambiguity".
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