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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I'd say the mess was there before. She just pointed at it. It's not surprising if the land of unspoken premises tends to be incoherent.

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    2. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose

      Showing contradictions (e.g. in the White woman as a subject of liberation) shouldn't undermine respect for values.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @fronxer

      Well, no, The way this is done is laden with values. But can the way it is done undermine respect for truth because of those values?

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    4. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I will concede that claims of universal truth can be undermined. But I think that's a good thing and makes science better.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @fronxer

      But can science work if it can never claim anything to be (provisionally) true? If it doesn't aim for objective truth?

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    6. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Sure, you just have to state under what assumptions your truth holds. Same as in logic.

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @fronxer

      The assumptions of evidence, testing & reason?

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    8. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Gosh I need to learn how to reaction-gif with this one 😄

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    9. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose

      I mean, usually scientific studies are pretty good at stating what they did and what the result was.

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    10. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose

      … But also bad at being explicit about the philosophical framework that gives the question meaning and connects it to the data.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2017
      Replying to @fronxer

      Does it need a philosophical framework?

      10:42 AM - 20 Oct 2017
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        2. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Yes! :D

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        3. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
          Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose

          If it doesn't have one, there will be an implicit one (or multiple). It's one of the many ways in which math is simpler than social science.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2017
          Replying to @fronxer

          Does the scientific method, the system of peer review, the conventions of reducing variable, double blind etc not count.

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        5. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          They all exist to address very real weaknesses. There may still be unaddressed weaknesses.

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2017
          Replying to @fronxer

          Yes. The process of finding ways to further reduce bias and error will probably continue until our extinction.

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        7. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Deconstruction of concepts is just another tool that can be used to do exactly that.

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        8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2017
          Replying to @fronxer

          Yes. I would say its one of the weakest ones & whilst science is the strongest.

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        9. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 20 Oct 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          The usefulness of science is contingent on the categories that structure its content.

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