That’s why POMO from Nietzsche thru Feyerabend has a role—to temper our egoism that we can possess this “truth”
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Replying to @BrianBuchbinder @HPluckrose
epistemic humility doesn't need to result in ahistorical "all science is racist, capitalist, white supremacy, whit a purposeful nefarious agenda" that's what people have a problem with. you're arguing with ghost in your head, i'm not saad or peterson.
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Replying to @Gil_Ant @HPluckrose
That’s all I was arguing for. Epistemic humility sums it nicely.
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That’s what burns my bacon. Critique such as Dewey’s or Rorty’s gets lumped in with the latest discoveries in campus Pyrrhonism.
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OTOH we’re informed that market dominance and rape are coded in our genes. (This touted as “objectively true”)
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"Supported by latest research," is better than "objectively true." Saying rape is genetically encoded is not saying it's OK.
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That it’s supposedly encoded is the worst of pseudoscientific “just-so” stories.
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Rape is a concept we have defined. At some point we developed the brains and moral reasoning to say that it was bad. But of course, much of what underlies it - sexual desire & dominance - are evolved.
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I think anti-rape attitudes also evolved, and yes, I am using evolution to support 2 contentions, and yes, that's problematic.
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Replying to @Ramcgreg @HPluckrose and
*2 opposite contentions* That's whats' problematic. Supporting 2 contentions is not problematic.
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They're not opposite tho. They're just reality. We evolved sex drives and violence which resulted in sexual violence and also compassion, empathy and justice which tell us this is wrong.
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