Noooo! We still want to respect evidence & reason in the humanities! That's where I am.
You are spectacularly missing the point. They assert things like 'sexual jealousy arose as a result of a crisis of masculinity in 17th C'
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It's not that we are attacking subjective claims. We are challenging belief that subjective experiences are more valid than data.
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More valid in an objectively verifiable sense? No, subjective claims are not.
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Precisely. But, postmodern approaches view them as equally valid forms of evidence. Fox News style debate where conviction = evidence.
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I might have said such a misleading thing in the 1990s. They are not equally valid forms of evidence but, rather, different ways of knowing.
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Knowing means have a true belief. Many people believe they "know" that climate change is not real. Are their beliefs valid?
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I take a broader stance of what knowing is.
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OK but we don't want to. Would like to keep what can be established (provisionally) as true separate from what meanings ppl can find.
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What happened to guests? We have different understandings of knowing. If we are clear about this, I see no problem. I am laying down a bit.
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This is a truth claim. And it's false. See essay I sent you.
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I will read tonight. Thanks.
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