The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 158 of 254

Rigorous without being strict

This claim is only disturbing if you think ‘strict’ is the same as ‘rigorous’. We don’t have to lapse into obfuscatory fog just because we reject the possibility of logical rigidity. It goes back to the idea that we can be as precise as possible without being totally precise.

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