
Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking
Intelligence Squared
The Importance of Logic Chopping
There is no agreed upon scale to measure whether somebody is nitpicking or being constructively rigorous. I would much rather read logic chopping analytic philosophers hyper-careful deductions than grandiose purple prose that emanates from some quarters on the continent. Wolfgang Pauli famously dissed the work of another physicist as not even wrong. If you got something clear and wrong, that's a contribution in itself. But a lot of stuff isn't even wrong.
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