Sweet Rationalism
Sweet Rationalism (Nathan)Sweet Rationalism publishes falsification-first essays that continue Daniel Dennett’s naturalization project by replacing metaphysical “skyhooks” with testable, constraint-grounded explanations of mind, meaning, and agency.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 48 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 29 hours ago |
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Where the Necessity Case for Whitehead’s Prehension Fails and Why That Makes Whitehead More Useful, Not Less
Nathan Sweet | Sweet Rationalism
TTS accessibility version: symbolic notation is rendered in spoken words. For example ?X will appear in the text as “question-mark ?X”, if you are reading this article rather than listening to the Substack...
Logic Does Not Choose Relevance. Does Feeling? Not Alone. My Response to Matthew David Segall’s “Whitehead’s Adventure in Rationality”
Nathan Sweet | Sweet Rationalism
The last couple of days, Substack has started behaving like a badly scripted synchronicity engine.
posted notes on Whitehead’s 1934 logic paper shortly after I published an article isolating the scope prob...
What Warrants the Scope Jump?
Nathan Sweet | Sweet Rationalism
’s latest reply to my previous article,
that prompted this article:
https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/i-just-realized-why-matthew-david/comment/341065048
I’m posting this as a separate article rathe...
I Just Realized Why Matthew David Segall Kept Answering Me Without Answering My Actual Argument
Revision notice — September 20, 2026
This version incorporates Matthew David Segall’s reply to the previous article and corrects several points of historical and terminological framing. I removed “finally” where it could imply that Mat...
A Quick Note: One Nature Does Not Entail One Feeling
September 17 update: Matthew has since responded to this article, and I have added his response and my reply at the end so the subsequent exchange remains part of the public record.
I used two terms too loosely, and Matt was right to corre...
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Independent transdisciplinary researcher developing a portable framework for corrigible reasoning across human and computational systems, with deep interests in the philosophy of science, mind, agency, consciousness, complex systems, and ontology.
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