On the reputationalist account rejecting experts may be viewed as little more than rejecting those whom society has collectively deemed as experts. Alternatively, adopting a realist account raises the challenge of determining who the genuine experts are. I argue that the realist account is the more...
Or, to respond to HJohn, the goal of IT as a caste is NOT to improve security — it’s to make money, like everyone else. Security as a cost-benefit is only an end to that means, so to analyze security practices one must include the systemic goals — as always, follow the money....
For math education, one consequence is the fetishization of abstract procedures, as I discussed above. For Western society, one likely consequence of objectism is our insistence on rigid categorization systems, formalized in the Aristotelian "law of the excluded middle:" the logic proposition that ...