I like Twitter for this! It makes you refine your thoughts & stops you getting carried away with your own rhetoric. And by 'you' I mean me.
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Replying to @cultofdusty
I agree that all knowledge is provisional but that objective knowledge should still an aim & evidence & reason is the way to get closest.
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Replying to @cultofdusty
There is no such thing as human truth. There are right & wrong answers whether humans are capable of knowing them or not.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @cultofdusty
All we can do is devise ways of getting closest to them & some are better than others. Science is better than astrology.
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Replying to @cultofdusty
Yes, Lyotard was very specific abt this. So are postcolonial theorists & intersectional feminists particularly. See this example.pic.twitter.com/Oybfz2JSKh
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Replying to @HPluckrose @cultofdusty
From here: http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/17/pomona-college-students-say-theres-no-su … See also
#DecolonizeScience & gender scholars' opposition to biological gender differences.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @HPluckrose @cultofdusty
See chant aimed at Charles Murray. I was penalised for saying sexual selection exists & that religion was more important than Race in 16th C
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But I gave examples in that essay generally & of my own experience of trying to do history empirically.
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