But I'm not denying that people have used 'truth' to mean things that are satisfying rather than evidence-based. I'm just saying its wrong
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
End of conversation
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