To wit: Ideally these metaphorical truths map onto literal truth but often that's not possible. And he says that was original sense of truth
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eg Sokal & Bricmont criticise the postmodernists on these grounds & Peterson does the same kind of thing.pic.twitter.com/tfJlN6Z0VM
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When it would be so easy to just say 'This myth is important & meaningful to this group for these reasons but it's not true.'
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It's not just myths though... He's knows you can't get an ought from an is... he wants to know how to find the oughts...
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So do we all. I say it should be evidenced-based & worked out according to principles, not archetypes &narratives that are meaningful to ppl
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Well you're right that he agrees with pomos on one thing, there are an infinite number of interpretations as to what you ought to do.
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Yes & these are best set out by making clear arguments based on consistent ethical principles, facts & consequences.
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Which going on about eg, male archetypes of the individual & female archetypes of the mother only gets in the way of.
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If we want to look at gender differences, we do better to go with facts about the brain & data sets & apply principles of non-discrimination
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He says that map onto each other ideally
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But just cos you don't have a rational explanation of smth doesn't mean it's not true, according to his theory
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Yes, exactly. This is my problem with epistemic relativists. Things are either true or they're not & they way to discover this is evidence.
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I think it's semantics whether u want to call it truth but it does seem like an important phenomenon
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It's not semantics. Epistemology matters. Facts matter. Science & evidence matter. They're how we progressed in the modern period.
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PoMo & Peterson approaches which gloss over this & go into stories & subjective beliefs as the source of wisdom & knowledge are post-truth.
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They contribute to the biggest problem PoMo brought us - the undermining of objective knowledge & the drive to search for it via science.
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It removes the pressure to have your facts straight, present your evidence, test your hypotheses. You can just talk of other ways of knowing
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