Yep, I think Kuhn is related but maybe doesn’t quite go far enough, since the new paradigms are still sort of “within the fundamental ontology humanity uses”? I didn’t know about MacIntyre’s history, that sounds interesting. Sort of related to ontological crises and how they’re sometimes in practice “not finished”.
One distinction I notice I didn’t make is that humanity can be ontologically clueless, and individual people can be ontologically clueless. Really any entity can be. It feels unsettling to think that humanity is on the ball with reality and I’m clueless over here, seems related to concept-shaped holes.
Yep, I think Kuhn is related but maybe doesn’t quite go far enough, since the new paradigms are still sort of “within the fundamental ontology humanity uses”? I didn’t know about MacIntyre’s history, that sounds interesting. Sort of related to ontological crises and how they’re sometimes in practice “not finished”.
One distinction I notice I didn’t make is that humanity can be ontologically clueless, and individual people can be ontologically clueless. Really any entity can be. It feels unsettling to think that humanity is on the ball with reality and I’m clueless over here, seems related to concept-shaped holes.