Formal methods formally require impossibly precise definitions of terms. How do we use them effectively without that?   https://metarationality.com/definition   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee:   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Reduction is a powertool of rationality, but reductionism can’t work as a general theory; most rationality is not reduction.   https://metarationality.com/reductionism   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee:   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Formal rationality requires absolute truths, but those are rare in the eggplant-sized world. How do we do rationality without them?   https://metarationality.com/sort-of-truth   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee:   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

The world is everything that is the case: Aristotelian logic was mistaken both in details and overall conception, yet its key ideas survive in contemporary rationalism. https://metarationality.com/Aristotelian-logic   Depends upon what the meaning of the word “is” is: Formal logic successfully addresses important defects in traditional, Aristotelian logic, but cannot deal with contextuality. https://metarationality.com/formal-logic   The value of meaninglessness: Recognizing that some statements are neither true nor false was a major advance in early 20th-century rationalism. https://metarationality.com/meaninglessness   "What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivist Credo" by David Stove http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/wrongthoughts.html   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Early 20th-century logical positivism was the last serious rationalism. Better understandings of rationality learn from its mistakes. https://metarationality.com/logical-positivism You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Rationalism responds to its failures, in the face of nebulosity, by making more complicated formal theories.   https://metarationality.com/rationalism-responses   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

The beginning of Part One of In The Cells Of The Eggplant.   The hope that systematic rationality can reliably provide certainty, understanding, and control fails when it encounters nebulosity.   https://metarationality.com/rationalism   Defining the subject matter: rationality, rationalism, reasonableness, and meta-rationality.   https://metarationality.com/rationalism-definitions   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Why meta-rationality matters for progress: leveling up science, technology, and society, even as they are unraveling.   https://metarationality.com/credibility-post-truth   A structural overview of the meta-rationality book In The Cells Of The Eggplant.   https://metarationality.com/structure   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Here's the second half of the interview with David Chapman in which we announced Fluidity Forum 2023.   In the first half, we discussed Fluidity Forum, a gathering we're planning for 2023 about metamodernity, sense-making, rationalism, metarationality, thinking-about-thinking, a metarationality curriculum, civilizational redesign, internal family systems, developmental theory, erisology, social media algorithms, conflict resolution, psychology, consilience, comparative religion, secular meditation, legibility & many other topics common in this space.   Many people asked me "what do half of those words mean?" I created a glossary. But there were a few terms I needed David Chapman's help with, such as the frame problem.   Links mentioned in this episode:

Fluidity Forum Glossary

Rationalism Before The Sequences by Eric S Raymond

The Bridge: Rationality to "Woo" by Evan McMullen on The Stoa   The Liminal Web by Joe Lightfoot   The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0 by Peter Limberg of The Stoa

Rationality And Refrigerators: This book offers more sophisticated understanding of truth than both rationalist absolutism and postmodernist relativism.   https://metarationality.com/refrigerator   Clouds and eggplants: The relationship between nebulosity—the inherent fuzziness of the world—and rationality is a central concern of meta-rationality.   https://metarationality.com/nebulosity   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold   Original music by Kevin MacLeod.   This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.