Ideas linking to #5114
Veritula – Meta
When there are two links next to each other, like when it says “Dennis Hackethal revised” in the activity feed, the user needs some way to see that they’re two links and not just one. Underline on hover shows them that.
What Makes One Idea Better Than Another?
How Does Veritula Work?
How Does Veritula Work? Veritula (Latin for ‘a bit of truth’) can help you live a life guided exclusively by reason. To reason, within any well-defined epistemology, means to follow and apply that epistemology. Unreason, or whim, is an undue departure from it. Epistemology is the study of knowledge – basically, the study of what helps knowledge grow, what hinders…
They must be decisive, since pending criticisms and rational adoptability are defined in terms of each other (see #5114). If a criticism is pending, we must by definition adopt it (if we want to be rational). These two concepts are a package deal.
Rational Decision-Making It’s rational to adopt only those ideas which, as written, don’t have pending criticisms, and to reject ideas that do. If an idea, as written, has no pending criticisms, it’s rational to adopt it and irrational to reject it. What reason could you have to reject it? If it has no pending criticisms, then either no reasons to…