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Posted by Dante on Saturday, August 16 2014 at 00:51:00AM
In reply to Foundations posted by sadlife on Friday, August 15 2014 at 07:20:46AM

I'd say that they just accrue through a lifetime of curiosity.

Doubt is good. Its the root that drives curiosity. Its what leaves you open to the possibility that everything should be open to reevaluation.

Eventually you hear or read something and it clicks. Sometimes it an "Oh, THAT'S why that happened." And sometimes its a statement about what SHOULD be.

Coherence is a good thing. A foolish consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but there is something elegant about the world in the scientific sense. Elegance isn't a reduction to simplicity, but is a simpler underlying structure.

In Aristotle's version of gravity, each thing falls for its own reason; everything is an exception. To Newton it was a force which acts consistently throughout the universe. To Einstein it isn't even a special force, but just the curvature of spacetime. A simple mathematical formula describes everything from microgravity to singularities.

Coherence tends towards eliminating exceptionalism.

The West once presumed that the Law should recognize such drastic differences in character and capacity that Women and Minorities needed to be treated as special cases apart from the laws men see fit to govern themselves by.

But it really starts in trying to root out inconsistencies in onesself. We all start out as hypocrites. Our sense of others grows in infancy and childhood; extending from the recognition that others even exist to the notion that they may have feelings and interests apart from ours.

But I remember being upset in childhood when what I had done to my brother was done by him to me. It was right when I did it and wrong when he did because I'm not him. Yeah, sure?

But this tendency sticks around in various biases. "Our spying is necessary defense, their spying is a wicked attack."

But all this starts in doubt. "Sure I believe it, but is it true? And why should it be true when I say it and false when he says it?"

Dante

Dante





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