tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post8336871851211025977..comments2024-03-28T17:08:15.784-07:00Comments on Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: Informal Logical Fallacies and Cognitive BiasesLord Keyneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-2297886448535111442011-06-28T17:26:51.936-07:002011-06-28T17:26:51.936-07:00"Cognitive closure" is just Kant's s..."Cognitive closure" is just Kant's silly "ding an sich" refried. Unfortunately, Kant's worst idea dominated nearly all 20th century philosophy. The latter German Idealists, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel rejected it as the self-declared nothing it is. Philosophy has not yet reattained their depth, coherence and clarity of thought. Their followers, the British Idealist tradition (Brand Blanshard being one of the last in that) and some of the Marxist tradition, including Lenin, were among the too few opponents, apart from scholars of the German Idealists. Dennett is usually right, but he is amazingly ungenerous and incomprehending of his intellectual predecessors.Calgacushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06031818010224747000noreply@blogger.com