swestrup comments on Evangelical Rationality - Less Wrong

36 Post author: CannibalSmith 20 April 2009 04:51AM

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Comment author: swestrup 23 April 2009 07:28:45PM 0 points [-]

But what does that have to do with the adjectives of 'near' and 'far'?

Comment author: pjeby 23 April 2009 08:00:07PM 0 points [-]

But what does that have to do with the adjectives of 'near' and 'far'?

The "near" system drives our behavior in relation to things that are "near" in terms of time, space, precision, and detail. The "far" system drives our verbalizations and abstractions regarding things that are "far" on those same axes.