But it is important to distinguish these from what is known to be true according to evidence & so easy to do that.
But it is vital not to blur subjective or cultural meaning with objective knowledge especially if we want to defeat postmodernism.
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Subjective meaning is one thing but this is some sort of tangential objective truth. What would you call it?
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Call what? I don't know what a tangential objective truth is.It can be objectively true that an idea which is not true is meaningful/helpful
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This, and the porcupine and malaria examples if you watched ithttps://twitter.com/brendonbrewer/status/910065998367039489 …
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But I'm not suggesting that its never helpful to believe things that aren't true. Just that we can acknowledge them as helpful but not true.
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eg Everybody is Wrong about God looks at why religion is so important & helpful to ppl & how we cld supply same needs w/out false belief.
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Yes it reminded me of that, though I haven't read it yet. Same sort of idea I think
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That's fair. But I'm a psychology student first, and a postmodernist destroyer second.
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But does your psychology require you to share with postmodernism ideas about knowledge?
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If ur problem with PoMo is ID politics & its use for lefty purposes, no conflict w/ Peterson. If you also care abt evidence-based truth, yes
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I think ur main problem is over his loose truth definition, which u are right about; but you're exaggerating the dmg it will do. its no pomo
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