Elliot
April 27, 2025, 11:00pm
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ActiveMind:
I have this attitude from:
Learning Philosophy · Elliot Temple
When you disagree with something, or don’t understand something, or feel uncomfortable/hesitant/doubtful, stop reading and post to the Fallible Ideas Discussion Forum . Don’t gloss over problems; bring them up. Don’t pretend you’ll go back and discuss when you get to the end of the book; discuss now. You need to get issues addressed now so that you can take those answers into account while reading the rest. Mistakes will spiral out of control, and destroy the value of reading the rest, if unaddressed.
So wouldn’t my early mistakes destroy my understanding of Popper books? Or was this directed towards people who wouldn’t do a rereading with more analysis? Personally I do think I would benefit a lot from reading your Popper recommendations right now.
This is itself an example of the issue I was talking about. I find a lot of times I give some advice, I later find out someone took it in a way I didn’t know about or intend. Like discouraging reading Popper wasn’t my intention.