Is there a path to convincing PoMo supporters to adopting coherence, and rigor to their analysis?
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Replying to @DonaldH1987
Not if they are committed to anti-realism and anti-reason; if they think objective reality is naive & knowledge is subjective & constructed.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Is that a popular behavior or a formal educational standard? It makes me rather concerned.
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Replying to @DonaldH1987
Its the pure academic form of postmodernism. It gets diluted a bit as its filtered through critical theory around gender/race/sexuality etc
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Replying to @HPluckrose @DonaldH1987
And then more as it comes out of academia and into SocJus movements. Other moralistic aims come into play.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @DonaldH1987
But the shift towards thinking different opinions mean different truths is more widespread & not necessarily underlain by ideology.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @DonaldH1987
So the problem with this can be talked through with people. Often ppl who say this will concede that it doesn't really work.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @DonaldH1987
eg, people who say 'I respect everybody's personal truth' will concede that they mean they respect ppl's right to different opinions and 1/2
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Replying to @HPluckrose @DonaldH1987
...that they do see that they can't all be true and that there are better and worse ways of finding out what is true.
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