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I think it’s entirely reasonable to resent this behaviour. By portraying their musings as weighty and learned discourse rather than unfalsifiable speculation, t
by taneq 3y ago
I think it’s entirely reasonable to resent this behaviour. By portraying their musings as weighty and learned discourse rather than unfalsifiable speculation, they’re wasting our time.
- jfengel 3y agoFalsifiability isn't the be-all and end-all. It's an important way of looking at the world, but it's also limiting. The limits are great at helping us identify absolute bullshit. And all of that bullshit is aggravating because it makes it seem impossible that there could be anything else. But it's still important to avoid the intellectual laziness of dismissing it automatically out of hand and potentially missing something else that matters to us.