"Bible Truths," "Sanctified Common Sense," & "Evangelical Insta-Trust" (#123)
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Impathy Is a Magic Knowledge Receptor
People will use different terms for this based on their group. My magic knowledge receptor might be reason, but it also might be intuition or authenticity. Common sense is a big one among conservatives. Progressors will sometimes talk about reason as well. Impathy, huge one on the left. It's this capacity we have to access reality and to relate properly to reality. We tend to think of the enlightenment as rooted in reason, but there's different enlightenments. And they all go back to this idea that we have some sort of internal, internal knowledge receptor that corresponds to the structure of reality. This goes back to gre roman philosophy and the idea of the spermadicus lagus
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