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

      But it doesn't make it true. We need to regain some respect for the truth rather than encourage competing narratives to fuel each other.

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

      Throwing numbers at people won't fix the feelings. I get the sense that by "facts" you mean quantitative evidence?

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

      How do we address problems that arise from the subjectivity inherent in being human if we contrain our attention to the supposed objective?

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

      However you want. Just don't claim that subjectivity is true.

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

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

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

      Again I feel like by "objective reality" you mean "quantitatively measurable things".

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

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

      Did President Trump conspire with the Russians? Does smoking cause cancer? Did I just order a Chinese takeaway?

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

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

      Post-truth happens when people claim their answers based on feelings to those questions are more true than the factually correct answer.

      11:23 AM - 20 Oct 2017
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Oct 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @fronxer

          I am soon taking part in a debate about the extent to which postmodernism contributes to this problem.

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

          I could imagine it being used as an excuse.

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

          An excuse for intellectual laziness.

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

          I will say that PoMo ideas can be used thoughtfully but the subjective reality/personal truth stuff becomes part of the cultural furniture..

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

          ..and then is used in all sorts of ways to assert ones own narrative with no regard to reason or evidence. It's 'my reality' & just as real.

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

          True

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