What do you perceive to be the difference between his understanding of truth and Sam Harris' then?
Hence truth stops being objective and criticisms that Peterson denies the objectivity of truth in the same way as postmodernists are substantiated.
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He does not DENY objective fact. That immediately makes him NOT a postmodernist. He accepts science wholeheartedly and defends it all the time. He also accepts that some truths are not empirical but embedded in ideas, in stories, in literature, etc.
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Yes, he does. This doesn't make sense.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/929420602687016961 …
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If your understanding of truth includes things which are objectively true and things which are objectively false and things which are unknown to be true or false you are not a believer in objective truth in the sense in which it is meant.
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And neither are postmodernists. They also accept as true some things which are objective and some which are subjective narratives. Robert Eaglestone calls this 'the metaphysics of correspondence' & 'primordial truth.' The former is a subcategory.
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So you will then agree Peterson is indeed not a Postermodernist?
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He's not a postmodernist, no. He just has the same rationale for subjective truth being constructed in narratives.
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Morality is subjective truth, so again I think you just fail to understand the topic all together.
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No, I don't fail to understand it. I disagree that this is truth. I know that people call all kinds of subjective stuff 'truth' and 'knowledge' & therefore they deny the objective nature of truth. Includes postmodernists & Prof Peterson.
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The search for truth can be conducted with objectivity. I'm not enough of a metaphysical realist to assume that truths themselves are "objective."
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We cannot be sure we ever have objective truth but we can aim for it using evidence and accept it provisionally.
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