Part of doing public philosophy is constructing a set of
clear instructions that helps readers follow you down into your own caverns of
thought; otherwise you may be pointing to a certain concept and shouting “You
see? You see?” while they are completely in the dark and have no idea how you
arrived at this concept, and thus cannot see it. That or they take the concept
out of context and misinterpret it, failing to see the larger structure hidden
beneath it, which in turn reaches the landscapes of reality, giving it a
hopefully logically sound foundation.
Just as one could look at an engine for example, and if one
understands it completely enough, one can follow its logic down into the
understanding of the reality that produced it, where one can either reproduce
it or ascertain whether it can be reproduced better. If one has a weak understanding
of the engine, one may build a version of it that contains some unseen flaw
that fails to deal with the realities that sustain it.
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