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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What does he argue that is objectively false?
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God, probably.
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He's an atheist so that would be shocking.
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LOL. No, he isn't. His conception of God may be metaphorical but he still claims it as truth. Which is the whole point.
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Yes, he is. Again you fail to understand
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You keep telling me I fail to understand and then agreeing with me. I think this is unproductive and best left here.
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No I tell you that you don't understand, tell you why, then you just double down and repeat yourself.
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We are saying the same thing with different framing. You say he accepts objective truth but also subjective truth. I agree with you & point out that truth for him is therefore not objective.
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