....and even with a casual look from the right perspective you can't help but be moved by it. No brains required.
I've been reading and re-reading Steven Pinker's When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... (great book, by the way, absolute must-read) and he makes the point that there is no "agree to disagree" since if both parties in a discussion are rational and have the same priors, then they have to reach the same conclusion. Otherwise, somebody made an error in logic, and that discrepancy must be identified and hashed out by the parties in the course of the discussion, or they have different facts and initial assumptions, which is also an issue that has to be sorted out in the course of discussion.
She basically boxes you in.
No comments:
Post a Comment