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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 8 Dec 2017

      An important realisation I have come to in the last six months is that postmodernists are less sophisticated in their thinking than me and not more.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Dec 2017

      I always thought them mistaken, obviously, but I was mistaken in thinking the difference was that they saw more nuance & layers than me but that some of theirs were unsubstantiated.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Dec 2017

      I thought I had to convince them to simplify & pare away layers of nonsense & defend against claims that I was being overly simplistic in my thinking.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Dec 2017

          After having spent a few months trying this more directly with academics strongly influenced by postmodernism, I find this is not the case at all.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Dec 2017

          It is they who are simplistic and binary even whilst they complain of everyone else being simplistic and binary. They have a very naive view of science & reason and a simplistic ideological take on the world which they just explore in unnecessarily convoluted theoretical language

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Dec 2017

          What is complicated, sophisticated and difficult to get right is science and reason because there is so much provisionality and so much fallibilism to take into account and try to mitigate.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Dec 2017

          You don't have to do that with postmodernism. Much simpler. If objective reality doesn't exist and subjective truths do & you can decide which to foreground based on past or even present marginalisation, there's no need for epistemic humility or testing or verifying or scepticism

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        1. Modus Pwnens‏ @PwnySlaystation 8 Dec 2017
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          Sometimes an overcomplicated mess of nonsense is just an overcomplicated mess of nonsense

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        1. Prometheus Unchained 🔥‏ @PrometheusAM 8 Dec 2017
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          Yeah, it's wrong. They start from ideology and do mental gymnastics from the conclusion that they wish to draw. Eg, unreliable, inconsistent, backwards process.

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