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Science is more like a conversation. (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Man, NGT gets so much bullshit thrown his way. Sure, he's an annoying shitposter on Twitter, but the vast majority of the time he makes a public discussion with someone he's either one of or the voice of reason, and that sentence does definitely throw all nuance he has out of the window.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I don't know, even on his own podcast I found him more willing to sound right than be right. Not that he was wrong, just dropping nuance and exceptions for the sake of sounding absolute and axiomatically correct.

His words end up being easy to poke holes in if and only if you know what he's talking about. Thus I find it hard to accept what he says when I don't know what he's talking about.

Paper castles look good, but a short stone wall has a better reputation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Sorry for my ignorance but what does axiomatically correct mean?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

An axiom is a statement that is accepted to be true, usually to serve as a foundation for further arguments. I assume OP meant that NGT would often make general statements without much justification and OP perceived these statements as not nuanced / "true" enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

.... That explains so much in my life. I need to learn more about how this works. Im do this poorly

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