Objectively true? That's a straw man. Who is making such claims?
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Replying to @JeffreyGuterman @RichardDawkins
Oh for goodness sake. I can't explain this in tweets if you really don't understand. Got company. I'll get back to you,
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Replying to @HPluckrose @RichardDawkins
You said subjective views "shouldn't be claimed to be true." I say that's a straw man. If you show me who said that, I'll also dispute.
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Replying to @JeffreyGuterman @RichardDawkins
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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They left! Me neither. But then criticising critics of postmodernism makes no sense coz none are criticising knowledge claims in that sense
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