I'm rereading David Detmer's Challenging Postmodernism.He talks abt the argument from disagreement used to 'show' that reality is subjective
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He points out that its when things are contentious that we feel the need to talk abt them, but nearly everything isn't, so we don't.
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This seems relevant to accusations like 'You spend more time saying punching Nazis is bad than saying Nazis are bad so you're pro-Nazi.'
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In reality, ppl may not feel the need to say Nazism is bad coz consensus on this with very few outliers. Punching them on other hand...
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Strongly recommend Challenging Postmodernism for accessible & rigorous philosophical breakdown of pomo on its own terms written beautifully.
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Phrenology, Communism, Homeopathy, Postmodernism, Critical Race Theory. Hi, and welcome to the historical dustbin of bad ideas.
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...that a house is "white on this side" if they had not walked around the house, because that's all they had seen.
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Heinlein refers to the idea of a "Fair Witness" who is trained to speak only what they see. They would only claim...
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