jaibot 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: jaibot 25 February 2014 10:43:12AM 3 points [-]

It looks like the problem might be that saying "X is a cultural construct" gets read as "X is just a cultural construct and as such has no value outside of it's cultural boundaries".

There is more to a thing than how it came to be.