Ep166 - Eugenia Cheng | The Art of Logic
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A Leap of Abstraction in Mats
i think arguments in life are often not really about one person being right and one person being wrong, but a sense in which something is right. So here is the sense in which two chairs are not analogous to two bananas, along with a sense in which they are. And then once we've made precise those two different levels, we can then have a discussion about which one is a better level to use for the current discussion. i say, a lot of pure mats comes from that. Youo do the same thing a few times and you oh, i don't want to do that any more. I'm going to theory that will do it for me. That's always the idea of
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