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Jiang defines reason as the act of dividing reality into categories, and says categorization is the precondition for reasoning anything out.
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Jiang says Beatrice’s point is that the moon problem defeats reason precisely because classification itself introduces distortion, so analytic categories cannot deliver truth here.
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"...When you reason, what you're really doing is dividing things into categories. Does that make sense? In order for you to reason, you have..."
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"...understand what's going on, okay? You're trying to put things into categories. And as a result, it's going to confuse you. All right? Yes?"
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"...the memory is then dealt with is that it's divided into categories, determined by emotions. Okay, do you understand? So if the emotion is..."
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"...heap of hell, right? Like, you don't belong in any other category, so you're just dumped here. But that's not Dante, right? We already..."
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"...in Paradiso, there are different levels of angels. There are different categories of angels, right? But we said all angels have no free will,..."
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"need to cut out one person that goes against the category imperative i know it sounds stupid wait a minute i kill one person..."
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"...the dimensions are infinite, we can roughly classify them in different categories. At the very bottom is the material world, which is our world...."
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"...social media friends. I can then put you in a certain category and then predict how you behave because people tend to behave people..."
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"...to understand the general will is through Kant's theory of the category. Kant's theory of the category is the category of the universal principle,..."
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"...are the ultimate end okay so these these together um the category imperative is what gives us the theory of the general will so..."
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"...like um commentating podcasting streaming class or whatever into two distinct categories there is one category is like you know the people who will..."
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