People knew different things in different times. Right & wrong answers still exist & knowledge builds.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ChrisDoveton
To an extent but this is a complex area. Right and wrong are clearly very difficult. This area is one of those where you can't easily just..
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Replying to @herewardwakeful @ChrisDoveton
Right & wrong aren't knowledge. You need an ethical premise & to argue for it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @herewardwakeful
Or did you not mean morally? Factually, we know some things, other things are probable, possible, unknown etc
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Replying to @HPluckrose @herewardwakeful
We have ways of reading & interpretation & things but then we don't claim truth so not a problem.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Wittgenstein, Nietzsche to name just a few recent but pre pomo writers that write on problems of truth/facts/language/power
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Replying to @herewardwakeful
What about them? We're at cross purposes I think.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
History and philosophy cannot be concerned with pure fact. They are intertwined with interpretation and power. See above writers.
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I have. That's the point... This is just an assertion.
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The arts don't but history, philosophy?