I think it's semantics whether u want to call it truth but it does seem like an important phenomenon
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism and
It's not semantics. Epistemology matters. Facts matter. Science & evidence matter. They're how we progressed in the modern period.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
That wasn't my impression from the Rogan, it was more an invocation not to throw out stuff cos it lacks rational justification
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @HPluckrose and
In case it has an important function/truthful component that you have failed to identify
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @HPluckrose and
Which would be like modernists trying to make everything rational and undermining critical functions of society, like socialism
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @HPluckrose and
Articulated reason is the tip of the iceberg. The rest is often wrong (and Helen is right to notice this) but often right. And crucial
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Replying to @brendonbrewer @HPluckrose and
in that you can't function without it
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
We're all crammed full of heuristics and intuitions that work (for the most part) but which we cannot articulate.
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Indeed. I think the only thing we can do is keep trying to grasp them whilst muddling along as best we can.
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