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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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"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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"...all 8,000 plus questions and broke it down into some major categories. What I'm going to do first is I will look at these..."
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"...war, AI, Republicans, finance, Democrats. Okay, absolutely correct in that. These categories are not that simple. It's a very fluid situation where AI is..."
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"...is the human life okay so that's the idea of the category imperative the ethical basis for the general will okay now in practical..."
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"...of having horrible leadership. I think Biden definitely fell in that category. But how do you explain this though, the cause of it? Why..."
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