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In Reply to: RE: you don't get science at all... posted by rivervalley817 on September 14, 2020 at 14:28:34:
Yes, I'm taking a conceptualist approach, if not an explicitly Kantian one. Trump, for instance, thinks that the Dow is the measure of progress. Most of us would find this concept wanting, and I applaud the thinkers who have looked at broadened measures of GDP that "internalize the externalities". Where I depart from Kant is I don't think there is one right answer. Certainly somehow maximizing human freedom is far too anthropocentric, and I suspect that in this sense Pinker is more Kantian.
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- now that is funny rivervalley! - Jim Pearce 14:44:42 09/14/20 (1)
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