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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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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 5

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Arwen King

    Yes. Yes, we can.https://twitter.com/arwen_king/status/970584585451929601 …

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    Arwen King @arwen_king
    Replying to @HPluckrose
    But can we really say that knowledge is NOT culturally constructed?
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      2. Antoine Kerbérénès‏ @AnZorn Mar 5
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        But can’t we acknowledge that a type of knowledge (or a norm of knowledge) is culturally constructed AND that one can still argue for its superiority to others types or norms of knowledge ? Isn’t it what western scientific tradition mostly achieved?

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      3. Antoine Kerbérénès‏ @AnZorn Mar 5
        Replying to @AnZorn @HPluckrose

        (At least by pairwise comparison and even allowing discussion of the criteria for such a judgement of superiority/preferabllity?)

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      5. Coffee is for closers‏ @MichaelFoster26 Mar 5
        Replying to @brook2_jonathan @AnZorn @HPluckrose

        It’s dangerous because it attempts to invalidate science that saves lives! I wonder how many pomos refuse heart surgery because “scientist is a social construct so surgery is meaningless.” Asshats

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      6. Antoine Kerbérénès‏ @AnZorn Mar 5
        Replying to @MichaelFoster26 @brook2_jonathan @HPluckrose

        I actually totally agree with that. I just claim that the appeal to scepticism which is dangerous does not follow directly from the social construction analysis. There’s a hidden assumption that it does which is passed in postmodernist folklore rather than the analysis itself.

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      7. Coffee is for closers‏ @MichaelFoster26 Mar 5
        Replying to @AnZorn @brook2_jonathan @HPluckrose

        I'm sorry, I didn't understand a thing you just wrote. And I have a PhD so I'm not exactly an idiot (no matter what my gf says).

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      8. Antoine Kerbérénès‏ @AnZorn Mar 5
        Replying to @MichaelFoster26 @brook2_jonathan @HPluckrose

        Well if you want to think about it and have questions on terms don’t hesitate to ask but I did not mean to use anything colloquial here.

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      9. Antoine Kerbérénès‏ @AnZorn Mar 5
        Replying to @AnZorn @MichaelFoster26 and

        Actually I think I use only terms you used in your own reply.

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      1. Rick von SLAYger‏ @RickVonJaeger Mar 5
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        culturally construed, maybe.

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      1. Arwen King‏ @arwen_king Mar 5
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        I’m not denying there could be objective truths, just that as cultural beings we may never be able to completely rule out the effects of our own subjective (and cultural) experience.

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      1. Randy McGregor‏ @Ramcgreg Mar 5
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        It's easy if you try.

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      1. The 'Bone Saw Babe' Yukster  🇯🇵  🇺🇸‏ @SetagayaGirl Mar 5
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        Abso-fucking-lutely.

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