I’m the one who introduced the term “first principles”, so I am the one who should be asked what definition I meant. Given that my original point was differentiating between the two value-sets, and that I was trying to convey the distinction between “figuring it out for yourself” as opposed to “being exposed to the answer”—I have to say that your continuing to re-introduce the notion of “look it up” just… isn’t very helpful to the conversation.
I ask you again; would you agree that unless you were exposed to the datapoint of what caused FDR’s paralysis, you could have no way of figuring it out for yourself?
(Note: “looking it up” is not an answer to this question. That would be a form of getting exposure to the datapoint.)
If you aren’t interested in how I define a term that I introduced to the discussion as opposed to how someone who never used said term would define it, I don’t know what you’re doing but I do know two things:
I’m the one who introduced the term “first principles”, so I am the one who should be asked what definition I meant. Given that my original point was differentiating between the two value-sets, and that I was trying to convey the distinction between “figuring it out for yourself” as opposed to “being exposed to the answer”—I have to say that your continuing to re-introduce the notion of “look it up” just… isn’t very helpful to the conversation.
I ask you again; would you agree that unless you were exposed to the datapoint of what caused FDR’s paralysis, you could have no way of figuring it out for yourself?
(Note: “looking it up” is not an answer to this question. That would be a form of getting exposure to the datapoint.)
I don’t care about your personal definition since the original statement was EY’s.
If you aren’t interested in how I define a term that I introduced to the discussion as opposed to how someone who never used said term would define it, I don’t know what you’re doing but I do know two things:
It is not engaging in rational discourse.
I will not be a participant in it.