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Why is it naive or calculating to look for coherence in a world-view?

• olivierlacan 6y ago
  Because a worldview isn't necessarily composed of all of possible opinions on one broad side of an argument. Do you subscribe to the least and most extreme spectrum of your particular philosophy or political affiliation? Do you think every conversation about progressing towards the mean should systematically be bogged down by the minimum and maximum? No matter how much they deviate from the standard?
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Why is it naive or calculating to look for coherence in a world-view? It's naive or calculating to take carefully selected elements from the disparate positions of different people in a diverse group as a “world-view”, much less to demand that that faked-up strawman of worldview be held to a standard of internal consistency.
  • tanseydavid 6y ago
    The inconsistent positions enumerated in the McWhorter piece should not be taken as disparate positions of different people. To claim that it is seems to amount to arguing in bad faith.
    • dragonwriter 6y ago
      > The inconsistent positions enumerated in the McWhorter piece should not be taken as disparate positions of different people. In the case where both views presented exist at all, I see no evidence (and McWhorter certainly presents none) that, outside of two where there is no internal conflict in the first place, they exist in any significnace other than as as disparate positions of different people. Given that, why would I take them as anything else?