If only those authors had channeled their fantasies into an art form other than economics, perhaps the world would be a more beautiful place.
At least the combination of ideology and internet connection is mainly psychologically destructive. It’s a step up from ideology and gunpowder’s uncanny ability to provide close-up views of friends bleeding to death.
Pragmatism might be defined as anti-ideological or it might be rooted in empiricism or actually it is quite the opposite of pragmatic to even wonder about such things.
We can talk, we can agree, we can use our physical and common senses, and we can do things together that are meaningful and make sense. We don’t really need the modernist requirement of axioms and their extrapolations.
Sure, rocketry benefits from models and empirical results and for a very simple reason: reproducing the results and proving to yourself that your ideas work through direct experience, the foundation of science itself.
The liberal arts are by necessity of a different epistemological foundation for a simple reason: we cannot currently model the entirety of our world in ways that are conducive to falsification. We get hints and generalizations. History is the foundation of these disciplines and trial-and-error across decades of lived experience the laboratory.
This necessarily adds a political dimension as everyone needs to be convinced to be willing participants in near planet-sized experiments.
For the most part people are satisfied with public roads and conservative with their approach to locomotion.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. There we go, a workable definition of pragmatism pops out at the end.
You actually wrote a huge wall of text without addressing anything in my comments, and even managed to insult the intelligence of me and every anarchist in existence in the process, cool
I actually have NEVER heard of someone being satisfied with the roads or strees in their city/county/
The problem is that the State doesn't work, it continually murders tons of people every year, it continually suppresses peoples rights every day, and it continually robs everyone of us of a better world.
The fact that you are currently privileged enough to not feel the oppression, or not understand as oppression and just accept it as a fact of life, is good for you, but it is incredibly abhorrent to just dismiss what I say by saying absolutely nothing
At least the combination of ideology and internet connection is mainly psychologically destructive. It’s a step up from ideology and gunpowder’s uncanny ability to provide close-up views of friends bleeding to death.
Pragmatism might be defined as anti-ideological or it might be rooted in empiricism or actually it is quite the opposite of pragmatic to even wonder about such things.
We can talk, we can agree, we can use our physical and common senses, and we can do things together that are meaningful and make sense. We don’t really need the modernist requirement of axioms and their extrapolations.
Sure, rocketry benefits from models and empirical results and for a very simple reason: reproducing the results and proving to yourself that your ideas work through direct experience, the foundation of science itself.
The liberal arts are by necessity of a different epistemological foundation for a simple reason: we cannot currently model the entirety of our world in ways that are conducive to falsification. We get hints and generalizations. History is the foundation of these disciplines and trial-and-error across decades of lived experience the laboratory.
This necessarily adds a political dimension as everyone needs to be convinced to be willing participants in near planet-sized experiments.
For the most part people are satisfied with public roads and conservative with their approach to locomotion.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. There we go, a workable definition of pragmatism pops out at the end.