polymathwannabe comments on How to teach to magical thinkers? - Less Wrong

14 Post author: polymathwannabe 24 February 2014 01:43PM

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Comment author: bogus 24 February 2014 10:48:20PM 3 points [-]

It relates through the not involving the laws of nature part. In a certain sense cultural constructs are not real. They are imaginary. And you can think of all imaginary things as about equally valid.

Just because something is a cultural construct, and thus "imaginary" or pethaps even subjective to some extent, does not mean it's not about reality. To think otherwise is simply a mind projection fallacy.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 24 February 2014 10:56:00PM 1 point [-]

True, but I'd not place much trust on a map whose creators refuse to constantly check with the territory.