conditioned and that these conditions may be material or cultural is not the same as saying that scientific truths have no value
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Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino
I think I've covered this. I am not claiming anything I haven't said.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
You said Foucalt's work is "centered on language and relativism", that would seem like he's saying that truth has no value.pic.twitter.com/m5EEZk1ogC
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Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose
I understand that your point (as you've said) is not to give a thorough account of these thinkers thoughts, i get that.
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Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino
No. Tracing epistemic & cultural relativity & identity politics back to its Leftist intellectual origins.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I just think that you start your text pinpointing (in the second paragraph) as being anti-realists when that isn't the case.
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Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose
I would understand if you mentioned that it was a specific reading of these authors, alas, that is not what is done. But fine
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Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose
you are aiming at something else, i understand that. But well, i don't think we are getting through each other, so lets leave it
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Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose
And sorry about the time (i'm in Brazil, so i didn't think about the time). I thank you, though, for the civility of our chat!
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Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino
Thank you too. I can anticipate your objections but this wld be a long conversation. David Detmer addresses it well, I think.
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The influence of Foucauldian ideas of knowledge & discourse on anti-realism in academia and wider culture, I mean.
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