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		nyeah 71 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guess I'm a rationalist now But that common use of the word is ignorant nonsense. So, yes, someone is wrong on the internet. So what?

jltsiren 71 days ago [–]

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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