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> I think that “it works but we don’t know why” is appealing to a small slice of well-educated people who are comfortable with complexity and the limits of know
by untangle 7y ago
> I think that “it works but we don’t know why” is appealing to a small slice of well-educated people who are comfortable with complexity and the limits of knowledge, but otherwise off-putting.
Really? So a limited number of intellectual elite are the only people capable of accepting faith-based arguments?
> It’s all pretty tricky human psychology though.
Indeed.
- stallmanite 7y agoSeems like the opposite of a faith-based argument to say “It works but we don’t know why.” Wouldn’t a faith-based argument typically specify the “why” without evidence. To me what GP is describing sounds more like science in that it wouldn’t be making unjustified claims.