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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 20

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Areo

      This is a good piece.https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/1053373859590631425 …

      Helen Pluckrose added,

      Areo @AreoMagazine
      "Once again, liberals and conservatives are destroying relationships with each other over disagreements about a matter that does not allow for a conclusive judgment." "The Prophecies of Kavanaugh" by @JohnRWoodJr https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/19/the-prophecies-of-kavanaugh/ …
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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20

      Knowledge claims unwarranted by what can be known were made on both sides according to tribal loyalties. Ideologically-motivated readings of situations are not a problem restricted to one side & this underscores the need to examine our epistemology - how we know what is true.pic.twitter.com/YcmtYiK1VH

      9:07 AM - 20 Oct 2018
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        1. Eric Dykstra‏ @Eric_Dykstra Oct 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          90%+ of the discussion I saw on Ford/Kavanaugh was about the partisan intuition the article talks about. But belief is not knowledge, and arguing over beliefs doesn't end in a productive conversation.

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        2. The Independent Whig‏ @TheWhig Oct 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Tribalism. We get it. How do we get past it? What’s the next step in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding? Here’s a suggestion: Compare the track records throughout history of the two predominant sets of moral intuitions.

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        3. The Independent Whig‏ @TheWhig Oct 20
          Replying to @TheWhig @HPluckrose

          Which one, if either, is more congruent with human nature; with how individuals and societies actually operate in the real world? Does one, through history, on the whole, do more good than harm?

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        4. The Independent Whig‏ @TheWhig Oct 20
          Replying to @TheWhig @HPluckrose

          We have the knowledge and the evidence to answer these and similar questions. Some examples:pic.twitter.com/DcL9q9x4cM

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        5. The Independent Whig‏ @TheWhig Oct 20
          Replying to @TheWhig @HPluckrose

          But maybe we’re afraid to ask them because the answers might reveal a clear winner. Nobody wants that. The cost of being found out as the loser is too high; the very thought of it is unbearable. We’re happier not knowing and continuing to simply fight.

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        6. The Independent Whig‏ @TheWhig Oct 20
          Replying to @TheWhig @HPluckrose

          But here’s the thing. The truth eventually almost always wins. There’s a relentless insistence to it, like gravity. We can deny it and avoid it all we want. But eventually it forces its way into daylight in a way that is impossible to deny.

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        7. The Independent Whig‏ @TheWhig Oct 20
          Replying to @TheWhig @HPluckrose

          It can literally take centuries for it to prevail. We sometimes resist it with all our might. But it is patient, and inexorable. It wears us down the way wind and rain wear down mountains. Eventually it breaks through and becomes the new norm.

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        8. The Independent Whig‏ @TheWhig Oct 20
          Replying to @TheWhig @HPluckrose

          This is what is commonly referred to as the arc of history, or the moral arc. It doesn’t bend toward the left or the right. It bends toward truth. The question is, in the “Conflict of Visions,” which vision is more right than wrong, and which is more wrong than right?

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        9. The Independent Whig‏ @TheWhig Oct 20
          Replying to @TheWhig @HPluckrose

          The answer, I think, is clear. And so the NEXT question is, do we have the intellectual will and the moral strength to allow ourselves to see it? Time will tell.

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        1. Steven Weavers‏ @StevenWeavers Oct 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          The only knowledge claim that matters is hers. Everything else flows from her burden of proof.

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