.@christianjbdev & I were talking abt the distinction between a healthy distrust of experts including scientists & an unhealthy one recently
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That distrust is a strength when used to get as close to objective knowledge as poss &a problem when used to deny it exists
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Sokal & Bricmont call this 'specific scepticism' & 'radical scepticism' - in the latter doubting everything is a principle
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and it therefore loses all worth. I think its just another form of beginning with a conclusion & is therefore unsceptical.
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The fact that the postmodern distrust of metanarratives is itself a metanarrative & has become a doctrine shld fatally undermine it but no.
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Academic leftists who define themselves as radically unorthodox need to refuse to see their position has been the orthodox one for some time
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They must be a beleaguered minority & present challenges to epistemic & moral relativity as conservatives trying to preserve a status quo.
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It seems incredible they have not noticed that conservatives& universal liberals (who they conflate) are the minority voices afraid to speak
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But my observation is that they genuinely have failed to notice this & continue to see themselves as the radical minority in universities.
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They're a minority, not a radical minority. They think that they have the same clout of physics or at least of economics.
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That's positing a 'two cultures' argument which is not the point.
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