If the claim is that men are oppressive, entitled, misogynistic & violent, then clearly #NotAtllMen #VeryFewMen #FFS
If the claim is that men can be perceived as oppressive, entitled, misogynistic & violent just for existing by this kind of feminist, then #YesAllMenhttps://twitter.com/MichaelGLFlood/status/990543996811333632 …
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No, it's not just standpoint. It makes ontological claims and that's where the real differences are.
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The epistemology does?
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No, epistemology asks questions about the nature of knowledge, where does knowledge come from etc... You can make all sorts of claims about the world, the epistemological question is how do you know your claims are correct. I've got $20 in my wallet. How do I know that...
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Yes, thank you. I know what epistemology is. This was why I was asking how it can also be ontology. Never mind. Clearly some wires crossed. This is the epistemology I am referring to.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02691728.2013.782585 …
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That's exactly why you shouldn't use the term. I know that piece, and hundreds of others like it. By using it that way you're stepping into their universe and giving them the high ground and following their confusion. It's a category error.
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No, I don't think so. I think we can show the problem with epistemologies like faith and standpoint theory as epistemologies without giving them any kind of highground.
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No you have to examine the ontological claims they make, and deal with each in terms of the epistemological grounds they rest on. Just trying to help and I've been doing this for a long time in published debates with the key postmoderns in my field and beyond. It's a trap...
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I am not sure why you think I disagree with you on this. I suggest arguing with someone who does.
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And you'll find even the most ardent postmodernist will use empiricism. You have to be able to point this out.
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Yes, thank you. I was aware of that.
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So why call it an epistemology, when they'll use empiricism, which is an epistemology. You flatten out all the important differences.
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I'm calling a specific epistemology which works on standpoint theory an epistemology. What do you think I'm calling an epistemology?
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I am saying that we *shouldn't* keep saying 'postmodernism' when we mean a certain set of ideas based on an epistemology of situated knowledge. Because postmodernism is much broader than this. I have just argued this in my response to the defence of postmodernism.
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Go back to the first tweet I responded to. Postmodernism isn't an epistemology. You ask a postmodernist, "How do you know that" and they say because I'm a postmodernist, then that's a statement of identity not an epistemology, and that should be pointed out.
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That is also what my tweet is saying. That postmodernism is not an epistemology and therefore should not be used to describe one. Therefore there is no need to explain to me that postmodernism isn't an epistemology.
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