We should be concerned abt errors, cheating & bias in systems of knowledge production which claim to adhere to an evidence-based epistemology. This is a different kind of problem to claiming evidence & reason to be a patriarchal, imperialist, white supremacist social construct
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Accepting that an objective reality exists does not imply that people can be sure that any proposed model of reality is exactly right, or that any testing can prove it so. We can hold our models of nature in high confidence, but we cannot be sure of them.
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That is why knowledge is always provisional. This only needs to be acknowledged & then we can get on with discovering things. Some people do this & eradicate smallpox. Others like to stand in the fog of the impossibility of absolute knowledge & go on about it pseudo-profoundly
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I don't even think you need to go that far. Popperian falsification theory essentially claims you don't need to claim you have full knowledge of the "objective" world. You just get closer and closer over time.
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Yes, that's what I began with. But we can accept that something like "Do vaccines cause autism?" has a right answer and we can test it and reach a conclusion which indicates action even if we cannot be absolutely sure we have full knowledge of any of the elements involved.
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Indeed. If anything I was never sure how deep skepticism was meant to abet progressive causes in the long term; especially when so much relies on convincing people man-made climate change is real, government inoculation campaigns are valuable, and so on.
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If objective reality did not exist nothing would work
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Singularity of consciousness man, physical existent reality is an illusion.http://sethkostek.com
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what's you point?
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Of course reality is a projection of the mind created by evaluation of sensory inputs and is malleable, but the information sensed is not fluid. There is only one constant stream of truth.
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‘All theories are born refuted’, as Popper said, but that is the strength of science, continual revision in the light of new research/evidence.
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P Value Wars will be lit af
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So are they saying we've made all these advances in technology through error? Or that the scientific method had nothing to do with it?
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"An objective reality exists" <= Social Justice Warriors only believe that their "lived experience" is real.
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Seems you are conflating (strong) correlationism (pace Meillassoux, Brassier, et al) with Postmodernism
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