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Re:Bonhoeffer on Stupidity by dandotway on Sunday October 17, 2021 @03:08AM (#28894556)
> Nothing is perfect

If logical thinking is, as you say, imperfect, is it possible that your own conclusion that no perfect things exist is itself an imperfect conclusion? If you use this word perfect, you at least have the Idea of Perfect, even if no perfect things exist. This kind of funny talk I'm using about Ideas of perfect things goes back 2400 years to Plato and his Theory of Forms[1]. According to the philosopher-logician A. N. Whitehead:

  The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition
  is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms
Re:Bonhoeffer on Stupidity by mbrodersen on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:37PM (#28951681)
Yep it is fun to think about. Especially when you realise that information is not abstract but physics. I recommend reading the “Constructor Theory of Information” if you haven’t already. It is free online.