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The Sacred (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Is Hegel a Killer?

In far mode, we don't have the capacity to resist our emotions. But you also said we reason by way of abstraction for things that are far away. So paradoxically, doing math is a near mode sort of mental activity,. Even though the mathematical items are abstract items. And so unfortunately, the word abstraction is being used simultaneously for two somewhat different things.

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