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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 Oct 10

      My timeline just got a lot more bearable by muting all the people waffling obscurantistly and completely beside the point. These are the ones who bother me the most because they're usually smart people who could engage substantively and valuably if they chose.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

      Instead, they slip & slide abt responding to alternative interpretations of straightforward statements & arguing it is plausible to interpret them this way or taking straightforward statements back to fundamental philosophical debates that can never be resolved on their own terms

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

      This is usually done to derail plainly spoken conversations about issues that are having a real impact on society right now. The key to this is to not engage with it or allow yourself to get taken off course into irresolvable abstractions.

      2 replies 2 retweets 44 likes
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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

      This will result in being called 'anti-intellectual' but, in reality, people can apply their intellects to many different topics most effectively and it is perfectly reasonable to decide not to spend yours on obscure and irresolvable philosophical/theological/postmodern concepts.

      2 replies 3 retweets 63 likes
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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

      If we want to know, say, how certain ideas about truth and knowledge have evolved over the last 50 years & are affecting society, we do not need to have solved the problem of accessing knowledge via human senses & brains or have read everything every philosopher ever said abt it.

      9 replies 2 retweets 46 likes
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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Tricoteuse

      By contrast, this kind of "criticism" is much more bearable.https://twitter.com/TricoteuseToo/status/1050022076155916294 …

      Helen Pluckrose added,

      Tricoteuse @TricoteuseToo
      Replying to @usatodayopinion @ConceptualJames and 2 others
      #FakeNews #AltRightMonsters #FascistPropaganda #WeSeeYou
      12:27 PM - 10 Oct 2018
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        1. The Independent Whig‏ @TheWhig Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          The Independent Whig Retweeted The Independent Whig

          Here’s a problem I often run into. Maybe you have too.https://twitter.com/thewhig/status/1050097409748029440?s=21 …

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          The Independent Whig @TheWhig
          An allegory attempting to convey the difference between the thinking in academia with that of the rest the world: pic.twitter.com/i7SRo9lSLf
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        1. Andrew sharpe‏ @sharpielaw Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Yes! Absolute certainty about the correctness of one’s views is so much easier to maintain when we block all those who would challenge those views with rationality. Engineered reinforcement of the binary choice between those who agree with us & cretins is so much more satisfying.

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        1. Ken Brown‏ @KenBrowne49 Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          No, we see them. All of them!

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