Hiding Behind Abstractions

When two people disagree, their ideas are not automatically equally plausible. Some ideas are superior than others. 

Proposition X is not equally reasonable as proposition Y simply because they are both propositions. I call this an "abstraction error", and you see it everywhere in the world of ideas.

Cultures, ideas, political theories, epistemologies - we cannot evaluate them in the abstract. We have to dive into the concrete.

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