Comment by patcon
5 days ago
I suspect it's the consequence of a depth-first search for truth, when reality is deep.
Imho narrative and metaphor and feeling hits more like the breadth-first mode. Lots of compression in pursuit of demarking a reality, whether or not everyone likes where a story does its compression. It takes visiting a lot places (and listening to how lot of signals bounce back) to drop a good metaphor, or craft a good story, that reaches and affects a large quorum of minds.
You cannot claim that your search for knowledge is deep while simultaneously dismissing most previous work on the topic. In the rationalists case they have little knowledge of historical and contemporary philosophy.