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Nevertheless I offer to posterity this set of postrationalist cultural influences. My syllabus is incomplete, but may serve two purposes. One end is archaeological. These materials map a culture that never existed. What can we imagine that postrationalists thought about when they should have been working or studying? What problems (if they had existed) might they have seen in the way people thought? What resolutions might they have sought, or offered? What, can we tentatively conclude, was their damage? The second outcome of this document is to make it possible for aspiring acolytes to imitate, in their own manner, the ways of this imaginary people, and thereby begin to depart from the realm of the real themselves. The selection of cultural touchstones is in neither complete, nor perfectly representative. My selection represents my own view and understanding of what matters, and not everyone necessarily agrees about this. It represents a single minor postrationalist’s perspective of wh

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