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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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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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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It's their standard operating procedure... They redefine terms and hurl accusations to distract from the fact that they are actually doing the very same things they rail so loudly against!https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/939342926987001858 …
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Here is a prime example. Note how she is using words, but not in anything like the normal way...pic.twitter.com/Ls1703hKKq
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Will there be an article describing your findings? That would be so useful.
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"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it yourself" - Albert Einstein.
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