No, no, no. You cannot reasonably say 'I believe in objective truth and also that subjective, erroneous things can be true.' You can muck about with the word 'truth' until you give the impression this makes sense but, in fact, it does not.
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Who's the target here, Helen? Thx.
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It can be postmodernists or Jordan Peterson or theologians. Probably more.
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Understood. I don't know Peterson's work, though I agree w/ him on the pronouns. I get that people want their unique (more likely "unique") situation acknowledged, but there's a contract w/ one's fellow humans, and reasonableness is part of it.
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It depends. It always pissess me off to hear ‘my’ truth. An utterance either corresponds to & accurately depicts reality or it does not. There is no ‘your’ truth. However, ‘my’ truth often just means ‘I think there something to position Q’ & that’s fine.
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Where the ‘something to’ means some kind of important value. In this context ‘truth’ is irritating, undisciplined and often confusing. However, that’s the world we live in. In this context, ‘subjective’ truth can be meaningfully discussed.
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Yes but not conflated.
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What the hell are you babbling on about?..
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She's trying to sort out
@jordanbpeterson on the idea of objective truth and metaphysical truth. And obviously having a hard time with it. I would suggest the JRE episode where@BretWeinstein and JBP talk about it, but she doesn't like my suggestions
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