tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post1583227647496382383..comments2024-03-18T17:20:21.775-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Seeing only black and white - just plain dumb?agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-6816329574507692912007-09-20T22:20:00.000-04:002007-09-20T22:20:00.000-04:00I think there is also a tendency among intellectua...I think there is also a tendency among intellectuals toward Platonism, toward assuming that higher thinking must represent perfect essences which a single counter example (e.g., a triangle with four sides) could disprove. In turn that leads to post-modernism, where you believe hideously implausible things just because they can't be ultimately disproved -- e.g., that blacks are more found in the NBA than Mexicans because there's a stereotype that blacks are more found in the NBA than Mexicans, so everybody is under the control of the stereotype and thus obeys it so precisely that the actual reality comes to be exactly what the stereotype says the realit is.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.com