My criticism of postmodernists, Jordan Peterson & Scott Adams is basically the same: they don't value (or in Adams case believe in) a
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a concept of truth. There's only narratives (pomo), archetypes (Peterson), persuasive tactics (Adams). These are all amoral stances, they
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No. I mean, in theory yes, but I find his work so tiresome I don't frankly want to. This is the kind of thing
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But his definition of truth has nothing to do with what any ordinary person would understand by that term.
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No. Do listen to the Sam Harris podcast & you'll see. It's not about evidence & reason.
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If believing 1 + 1 = 3 somehow helped humans survive & procreate, he'd say it was true rather than that a false belief helps humans survive
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