Good luck with that! Truth doesn't care much whether it serves the purpose of humanity or not. XD Otherwise we could just make all the unpleasant truths not true any more & then we'd never die, there'd be no war, famine, global waming etc. Better to acknowledge them & deal.https://twitter.com/CalabreseJuve/status/953812626689019904 …
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My position is that you’re misunderstanding him. If I believed what I think you believe about his epistemology I’d agree with you. He’s spent a good deal of time clarifying his position since that train wreck first go with Harris.
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Yes but he clarifies it in the same way! Truth is what makes us survive. There is an affective truth found in mythology. Knowledge is constructed in language.
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If there is no God, words have no objective meaning, yes? So he can technically say “for the purpose of this conversation, ‘truth’ means a fart of not less than 2 seconds duration” and so long as his conversational partners agree, the word’s meaning has been temporarily changed.
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What? Why have you gone all Derridean?
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Did I at least make you laugh? I’m not arguing words have no meaning, I’m saying they have no platonic form, if you will. They have enough meaning to be used scientifically, but only through general consensus. The word “gay” for instance, once meant one thing, now another.
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Yes, but I am not talking about semantics. You can change the word truth for the word peanut butter if you like. Epistemologies based on evidence and those based on emotionally resonant myths still produce very different results. I must sleep.
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I agree, and I think Peterson does as well. That’s what I’m failing to communicate. Have a good sleep.
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