I get accused of naive positivism a lot but this is not really true. I'm much more interested in how people think & experience things.
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They tend to set up a false dichotomy in which you can *only* value objective facts OR individual and group experiences & perspectives.
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That if you claim objective reality to exist, you must be a robot who doesn't think human experience & emotion are in any way important.
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But this is a projection of their own one-sidedness. They focus solely on human experience & emotion & reject objective truth.
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So they assume that works the other way round too, but it doesn't.
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I'm sure there are people who care for nothing but what can be established as objectively true and nothing for human feelings &relationships
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But these people would be radically unusual to the point of disablement.
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Even those who dedicate their working lives to the goal of achieving objective knowledge, dedicate much of the rest of it to human feelings.
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Relationships, politics, communities etc. And stories whether in the form of fiction, TV, video games.
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And of course, in reality, those who disparage the idea of objective reality, accept it on a mundane basis. Or they'd be dead.
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It's just such a stupid thing to get dichotomous about. Objective reality exists & so does highly variable human experience of it.
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It’s a tension between narratives that involve choices and their relation to evidence which may be incomplete or may change over time.
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