What constitutes the reality of immigration? Is it numbers? Or is it human interactions, an authority that assigns labels, feelings,…
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I only claim that its existence is true and that it can have real effects due to its inhabiting human beings, social actors.
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Yes and you can talk to other people who share your interest in this about this. Just need to keep it separate from objective reality.
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Again I feel like by "objective reality" you mean "quantitatively measurable things".
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I mean objective reality. Things that are true whether or not we can measure them. eg, Does the earth orbit the sun. There is a right answer
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Did President Trump conspire with the Russians? Does smoking cause cancer? Did I just order a Chinese takeaway?
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We can also talk about how we feel about all those questions & motivations for asking them but there are right& wrong answers.
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Post-truth happens when people claim their answers based on feelings to those questions are more true than the factually correct answer.
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I am soon taking part in a debate about the extent to which postmodernism contributes to this problem.
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