{"id":7916,"date":"2009-04-17T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T18:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T15:16:06","slug":"the-epistemology-of-open-mindedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7916\/the-epistemology-of-open-mindedness\/","title":{"rendered":"The epistemology of open-mindedness…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In email to me this morning, someone said, “Your site is major-league high-brow.” I thought that was a funny observation, but I also know there is some truth to it. I don’t know that we’re all that high-brow-civilized, but we do try to take up ideas in a very penetrating way.<\/p>\n

Epistemology — the philosophy of knowledge — how can you verify and validate your knowledge? — is an idea I’m always bringing up. There is no limit to how much better we can get at thinking.<\/p>\n

This is a video I saw yesterday at Little Green Footballs<\/a>. This is on-topic for BloodhoundBlog only in the absolute broadest sense, but BloodhoundBlog is all about looking at things in the absolute broadest sense. In any case, this is a very nice example of video doing an intellectual job that would be much harder to pull off in prose.<\/p>\n

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In email to me this morning, someone said, “Your site is major-league high-brow.” I thought that was a funny observation, but I also know there is some truth to it. I don’t know that we’re all that high-brow-civilized, but we do try to take up ideas in a very penetrating way. Epistemology — the philosophy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18489,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18489\/overnight-news-when-youre-really-bad-at-keeping-track-of-things-miracles-abound\/","url_meta":{"origin":7916,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: When you\u2019re really bad at keeping track of things, miracles\u00a0abound.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"At some point I will write an extended rhapsody of everything dogs can do that people can do. 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