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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Nov 2017
      Replying to @xchixm @M_Methuselah

      Yes. That's the problem with postmodernism and religion and JPB. Alternative ways of knowing and calling them all truth and going with what feels right.

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    2. André van Es  🇪🇺  🇳🇱 🌷  🇬🇧 #FBPE‏ @andrevanes 12 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @xchixm @M_Methuselah

      Maybe I do not interpret your position correctly, but it looks like you are a realist about truth: the world exists objectively and our claims are about that world. This assumes our metaphysics are real, but are they? Is string theory real??

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Nov 2017
      Replying to @andrevanes @xchixm @M_Methuselah

      All knowledge is provisional and we cannot be sure of knowing anything absolutely.

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    4. André van Es  🇪🇺  🇳🇱 🌷  🇬🇧 #FBPE‏ @andrevanes 12 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @xchixm @M_Methuselah

      Then how can you know what truth is? Best case is you approach it. Popper struggled with that notion. Is it in principle possible truth is approached from 2 different angles? Impossible to decide which is closer?

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Nov 2017
      Replying to @andrevanes @xchixm @M_Methuselah

      Work on the hypothesis that reality exists. Consider that there might be better and worse ways of getting at it. Compare results. So far, science and similarly empirical and rational approaches are winning

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    6. André van Es  🇪🇺  🇳🇱 🌷  🇬🇧 #FBPE‏ @andrevanes 12 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @xchixm @M_Methuselah

      I don't think we disagree on the point that reality exists. Currently I am not convinced by the reality of metaphysics, except for explanatory power (and even that is limited). Who is winning is less important than who is right.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Nov 2017
      Replying to @andrevanes @xchixm @M_Methuselah

      That is what I mean by winning. Winning at getting things right.

      8:53 AM - 12 Nov 2017
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        2. André van Es  🇪🇺  🇳🇱 🌷  🇬🇧 #FBPE‏ @andrevanes 12 Nov 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @xchixm @M_Methuselah

          Being right is ambiguous. Making correct predictions in our reality is not a guarantee for being closer to the truth.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Nov 2017
          Replying to @andrevanes @xchixm @M_Methuselah

          Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Helen Pluckrose

          But it's what we can do. And what we have to do. Work within what we have got. Please see this three-tweet thread.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/929749797828997120 …

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          Discussions of truth often get too large and abstract and falter on the grounds of the absence of a comprehensive, philosophical theory of truth.
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        4. André van Es  🇪🇺  🇳🇱 🌷  🇬🇧 #FBPE‏ @andrevanes 12 Nov 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @xchixm @M_Methuselah

          Thanks. For me Truth is important and something I think about a lot. But I will not waste many more tweets on it now. And I know by experience that in Science the path to a theory is not as straight as it seems from the outside.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 12 Nov 2017
          Replying to @andrevanes @xchixm @M_Methuselah

          We get a lot wrong on the way. I think we can either wallow in the mess of not being able to be absolutely sure of knowledge or we can accept that knowledge is provisional and that we are fallible and then do our best with the best tools we have got.

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