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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 February 2016 09:49:04AM *  0 points [-]

I believe that anyone who says either "logic is sexist and racist" or "I am going to rape this equation"

Nobody linked here says either of those things. In particular the orginal blog posts says about logic:

This is not to say it is not useful; it is. But it does not exist in a vacuum and should not be sanctified.

The argument isn't that logic is inherently sexist and racist and therefore bad but that it's frequently used in places where there are other viable alternatives. That using it in those places can be driven by sexism or racism.

Comment author: Old_Gold 20 February 2016 04:58:02AM 5 points [-]

The argument isn't that logic is inherently sexist and racist and therefore bad but that it's frequently used in places where there are other viable alternatives.

Such as?

Comment author: ChristianKl 20 February 2016 09:47:38AM 1 point [-]

Interviewing lot's of people to understand their view points and not to have conversations with them to show them where they are wrong but be non-judgemental. That's basically what YC teaches.

Reasoning by analogy is useful in some cases.

There's a huge class of expert decisions that's done via intuition.

Using a technique like Gendlin's Focusing would be a way to get to solutions that's not based on logic.

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