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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

Wouldn't progress be non-quenching? Otherwise it would cease to fluctuate. But this is less helpful.

Too much of my own intellectual discourse is spent agreeing or disagreeing with people's positions, rather than seeking out the deep questions (often enough non-existent or poorly articulated) which drive us to want a position in the first.

I admire thinkers insofar as they are willing to, as Wittgenstein mentions in the introduction to 'Philosophical Investigations', pursue a method of thinking and constantly evaluate it, then having used the ladder to reach a new standpoint, kick the ladder away and ask if the location is meaningful. And if so, how?

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isomorphisms's avatar

Yes, saying "I'm an algebraic topologist" or "an analyst" does seem to be more about the approach taken to solve problems than the questions asked. But I think "development economist" is a label based on questions.

In my opinion ∃ serious incentives to limit one's question and answer styles within the academic economics framework.

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