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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted P-Brane

      Competing hypotheses in physics are not evidence of subjective truth. They mean that one or both of them are wrong. Physicists necessarily accept this or they'd never discover anything but just say 'Everybody is right. Let's go home.'https://twitter.com/BraneRunner/status/1000046108784160768 …

      Helen Pluckrose added,

      P-Brane @BraneRunner
      Replying to @HPluckrose
      Even in Physics there are differences of opinion. “Objective truth” is an ideal “Platonic” concept but it would be difficult for individual human beings with all their flaws and biases to know everything. Besides politics is not “rocket science” 🧐
      4 replies 4 retweets 22 likes
    2. Dave Thompson‏ @DaveJohnT May 25
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      The problem with 'truth' and 'objective' is the problem of absolutes - a pretty much impossible bar to reach outside of tautologies. Worse, it's difficult to see how you know you've arrived at 'truth' even if you manage to get there. The best we can achieve is 'consistency'.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
      Replying to @DaveJohnT

      It's the aim, isn't it? We cannot know anything for certain but having acknowledged that it is better to act as tho we can & develop medicines. I think it is objectively true I'm talking to you right now but you or I or both of us might not exist. Let's assume we do & proceed.

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    4. Dave Thompson‏ @DaveJohnT May 25
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      No. I'm not convinced that the unattainable should be an aim. It creates unnecessary confusion (the consequence of a belief in absolutes, for instance moral absolutes, is a good example). 'Consistency' (which allows for that which is 'relative') achieves everything you want.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
      Replying to @DaveJohnT

      We shouldn't try to get less wrong? About things like biology and history? We should just settle for being consistent whether we're consistently right or wrong?

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    6. Dave Thompson‏ @DaveJohnT May 25
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Is it possible to be consistently wrong? That looks to me close to a contradiction. Probably the best you could get to being consistently wrong would be, ironically, through absolutist philosophies such as Plato's forms.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
      Replying to @DaveJohnT

      Absolutely. You can state a premise and then build on its tenets with great internal consistency for years - feminist epistemology - or centuries - theology - if necessary.

      10:22 AM - 25 May 2018
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        2. Dave Thompson‏ @DaveJohnT May 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Those are good examples where people have sought for and found the 'truth'. Once you have the 'truth' anything that is 'inconsistent' with it can be ignored or rationalised away. It is harder to do that when 'consistency' rather than 'truth' is intrinsic to your project.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
          Replying to @DaveJohnT

          That depends on the epistemology for finding truth and the methods for testing it.

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        4. Dave Thompson‏ @DaveJohnT May 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Your core confusion is recognisable 'truth'. If truth isn't recognisable you can't know you've attained it. Yet 'recognisable' assumes prior knowledge of what truth is. The best you can have is consistency (of evidence, methods, epistemology + the relationship between them).

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