A lot of scientists (Dawkins eg, the Jordan Peterson of a different crowd) have a hugely lesser appreciation. It's evident in this reductive quote he's a sophist when it comes to grasping the significance of narrative in terms of what is known now and can be known scientifically.
Well, yes. If he doesn't, I'm criticising something which doesn't exist. He does tho. The mythic world, pragmatic notions of truth are consistent & explicit. This is at the root of the difference skeptics/rationalists have with him - epistemology, how we know what is true.
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If you asked him that question above though I'm not positive he would say what you are saying, which I know is what you've taken from his books. I get the epistemology thing, I'm just pretty inclined to think it's a communication rather than philosophical/epistemological issue
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You should definitely check rather than taking my word for it. You will find an epistemological difference tho. Rogan hoped that it was a communication difference which could be resolved only to find Peterson adamant on defining truth pragmatically rather than by evidence.
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That isn't a strawman or a misrepresentation of his position tho I understand why you'd suspect this because that happens to him a lot. He really does argue for this being a better way to define truth consistently & his supporters who are familiar with this defend it too.
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No, that makes sense if he was insistent on that. I would definitely disagree w/ that. Or the way I think of it, what he is calling "true" is like common sense/grammaw wisdom, which I do realize is different than rigorously tested physical science etc. I will check it out, thnx
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I think people get bogged down on Peterson. Yeah, he's off on some things. But others he isn't. Just like the primary topic here. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater
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It very much depends what you see the baby to be and what you discern as the bathwater. This varies hugely. eg,pic.twitter.com/KuWrpogTX9
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