I think there are objective truths, that it matters what they are & that there are better & worse ways of getting to them.
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Truth matters in itself, separately from the consequences of disregarding reason & evidence as the way to establish what is true.
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That this seems to many like a naive and outdated position to take is extremely troubling.
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So I am now writing a thing on the difference between valuing nuance, uncertainty, open-mindedness & being an obscurantist woo-merchant.
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Because, evidently, this is unclear to some people.
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I wrote a thing about the value of being consistently sceptical & liberal recently, ICYMI.https://areomagazine.com/2017/05/15/where-now-for-new-atheists/ …
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so us righties are less reasonable. Sweet, got it!
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Can't see what you're responding to but that's probably not what I said. :-p
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If I can't misinterpret you, what exactly do we have to talk about?
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Also, pomo and it's affiliates are more preeminent right now. When the religious right was at it's peak they were more criticized
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than the left, even if the problems were already there.
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Pol often defined as perennial tug of war between left/right. Also there is a higher dimensional tug of war between truthers/non-truthers.
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Too often critic is understood as a way to shut down ideas, while when coming from "the same side" it's actually meant to improve the ideas.
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