See, I'm listening & Rogan is setting out the case for truth logically & with clarity & Peterson goes straight into archetypes & narratives.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
There's nothing wrong with drawing out ideas that are meaningful to humans from narratives, tropes, characters. I'm a lit student.
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But it is important to distinguish these from what is known to be true according to evidence & so easy to do that.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
eg Sokal & Bricmont criticise the postmodernists on these grounds & Peterson does the same kind of thing.pic.twitter.com/tfJlN6Z0VM
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
What if a custom is critically important but no one really knows why
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism and
Then we say it's critically important but no-one really knows why. So easy. Don't need to confuse it with evidence-based knowledge.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
No one necessarily knows it's important too though, I guess
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Then it won't be. It becomes important to people if they find it important.
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