You can accept that people have "notions" of truth: "The world is full of demi-gods and fairies" without those notions being empirically true.
We are saying the same thing but you think this means he is a defender of objective truth because some of the truths he accepts are objective. I say he is not because his definition of truth includes things which are not objectively true.
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He's a defender of science. In the USSR, pretty much any academic or scientist whose study went against the concepts of equality were arrested and probably gulaged. He sees that sort of behavior manifesting in the far left and wants to end it.
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To a certain extent and yet we saw that he disagreed that the truth of square numbers would be scientifically established rather than by whether a belief about it aided survival.
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You cannot cling to some obscure snippet of an interview completely divorced from context like this. Your narrative of his beliefs is wrong.
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