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Putting aside your anti-intellectual babytalk: One may compare circumstances of the same kind without asserting that they are of the same degree. This is gener
by 1attice 3y ago
Putting aside your anti-intellectual babytalk:
One may compare circumstances of the same kind without asserting that they are of the same degree. This is generally referred to as an 'intuition pump' -- it's not the most reliable move, philosophically speaking, but it does have a pretty long history, IIRC Plato's _Republic_ mentions looking at big things from far away in order to understand things that would remain obscure if (as he put it) written small.
If you could read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump I'd be willing to have a conversation with you about the pros and cons of this approach.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 3y ago> your anti-intellectual babytalk Funny, that's exactly how I'd describe your insipid, over-dramatic tumblr-speak posting style that I was parodying.