I am not interested in this conversation anymore, thank you. I tried discussing it. It was pointless & frustrating as I was warned it would be. I don't want to do it again. But thank you.
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1/ Here's what I was thinking, lest it seem too vatic. I defend liberal values because they're required for the fullest pursuit of truth by reason; that's why I need to go to the bottom of the justification, even of liberal values and scientific epistemology themselves.
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I'm muting this conversation now. I really can't bear any more of it.
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3/ ... According to which some of the appeals of both are touted, but then deep critiques of the foundations are dismissed as too skeptical or too philosophical or ... I don't mean to put words in your mouth, I'm just inferring from your contributions to this thread.
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God bless you but this discussion is more doomed than Custer's Last Stand and it being conducted with about as much of a sense of fair play.
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We just don't want to play!
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4/ Such defenses don't seem to me to be defenses at all, in the end, but merely the statement of prejudices ("these are our values, this is our method, and they do some good things"). As such, they're not fully rational, and thus fail according to their own ideal.
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2/ I explain that more fully in the second parts of my two most recent
@QuilletteM articles. This differs, ultimately, from the defenses that other proponents of liberalism and empirical science (such as you, it seems to me) have been mounting...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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