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328 part three we've been discussing

Yasha Monks new book the identity trap I want to start us off with a

framework that I want to throw out before we just get into ripping on this book or whatever which is

we have of course spent a lot of time evaluating ethical theories, right?

You get a general rule, you then put that against real or imagined consequences and

you decide whether that rule was good.

If you run against something that is counterintuitive, something, oh, you actually have to

murder all these people.

Well, that's not a good ethical theory or you have to decide that the way that you are

applying the ethical theory to this case isn't actually the right way, that you're

misunderstanding the ethical theory. We've also, in our philosophy of science

episodes, talked about a scientific paradigm a scientific research program as

Lakatosh called it where you have a set of claims and you likewise evaluate those against experiments and as we've talked about it's not just that if an experiment

doesn't turn out as the theory would predict that you throw away the theory

it's that you may be you throw away one of the subordinate claims,

or maybe you decide that you were not understanding

either the theory or the results of that experiment correctly.

But we have not really talked about in this level of detail ideologies.

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