The power and the pleasure of emotionally resonant narratives cannot be denied. We are a story telling species. It's a useful teaching tool too because we retain stories better than facts. This is our default setting.
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This is why I argue with postmodernists who say our default is 'the metaphysics of correspondence' - believing what we see empirically to be true. That we are too dependent on evidence & reason & need to open our minds to other ways of knowing - mininarratives & lived experience
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We are absolutely crap at going with evidence & reason. It took millennia to set up a system which worked like this and still people can't be trusted to do it properly and we need rules about falsification and peer review to limit bias and (unconsciously?) motivated reading.
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This is why we need viewpoint diversity, freedom of speech and an expectation that the arguments produced by this will make sense and be evidenced. Otherwise, we'll just tell ourselves the stories which make us feel best, hold on to confirming evidence and ignore disconfirming.
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