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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by nyeah on Thursday June 19, 2025 @01:21PM (#44320672)
But that common use of the word is ignorant nonsense. So, yes, someone is wrong on the internet. So what?
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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by jltsiren on Thursday June 19, 2025 @02:17PM (#44321129)
The context here was a claim that reducibility is usually a goal of intellectual pursuits. Which is empirically false, as there are many academic fields with a negative view of reductionism.
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