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Intellectuals (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Isn't Intellectual Someone Who Tries to Understand Things?

I was trying to distinguish these different kinds of concepts you might think well if we are making a brand promise for example then we need to figure out what it is we are promising to do for people. Or if you hire me for a job in your school and I think it means one thing and you think it means another thing that may be reasons why we might need to agree on something. Are those the kinds of things you have in mind? Well so if I can take address generally this issue that we've disagreed about and had about before where you don't like how I always wanted to use one purpose for everything. It's sort of related to the project of idealization the idea that we

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