[Half-drunk ramblings with a dozen edits, feel free to ignore]

I don’t know. I think logic and reason (L&R) were intended to make up for our shortcomings. Our minds don’t write down facts, they remember in hazy patterns. L&R were first codified by Descartes (to my knowledge) but used in practice back to the ancient Sumerian engineers if not further. I think the fact that they have been wildly successful despite not being universally adopted just indicates how fundamentally different they are than the naturally workings of the wet brain hardware we evolved across aeons for survival and basic propagation. And while it’s certainly no end unto itself, of course it’s not hard to imagine the additional progress that would come from broader acceptance and application of L&R and the scientific process.

So yeah I wouldn’t call it a hacky patch; there’s genuine value in concrete and self-consistent philosophy. But we have to wrestle against our nature to embrace it.