Separate magisteria
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Compartmentalization, or division of types of activity on separate magisteria is a tendency to restrict application of a generally-applicable skill, such as scientific method, only to select few contexts. More generally, the concept refers to not following a piece of knowledge to its logical conclusion, or not taking it seriously.
Blog posts
- Outside the Laboratory
- Reason as memetic immune disorder by Phil Goetz
- That Magical Click - Fast following of short inference chains might be a capability of people who fail to compartmentalize
- Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality by Anna Salamon
- The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist by Yvain
See also
- Semantic stopsign, Anti-epistemology
- Cached thought
- Shut up and multiply, Bite the bullet, Absurdity heuristic
- Dangerous knowledge
- General knowledge, Understanding
