Simply fixed because he wouldn't call it 'truth'. He'd say there are non-substantiated beliefs and there are truths. The postmodernists conflate these into different kinds of truths and ways of knowing & so does Peterson. It's not helpful.
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I know he wouldnt call it truth, I have maintained that the entire time. A strict empiricist who rejects intangible truth would call it "non-substantiated beliefs". Peterson would agree it is not scientific fact but truth for being; the truth morality.
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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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Ironically your claim that he rejects objective truth is objectively false.
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I can't break this down any more. You mean that he accepts objective truths among other truths. I say that this means what he considers true is not always objective and neither is that his criteria. This is the criticism of him & of postmodernists.
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The acceptance of objective fact derived from empiricism and the acceptance of truths that exist outside of that are not incompatible. He's not going to argue for Flat Earth because of some myth that says so. He does not argue AGAINST science, he goes where it cannot.
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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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