You're making the claim Alan. You defend it. Who are all these members of the IDW you refer to. Is @HPluckrose one?
Tribal groups take on metanarratives which suit them, whether postmodern or post-truth or religious or whatever. That's why I don't like the idea of an 'intellectual dark web.' These are very different people & should be evaluated as individuals.
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You use the word ‘tribal’. What makes one set a ‘tribe’ and one ‘’different people’, to be ‘evaluated individually’?
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Is it not possible to see individuals, identify common features and then conceive of them as a group or class?
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Yes, of course. I'd say these people don't fit that in any meaningful way but then I evaluate people by their principles & epistemologies.
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Indeed. And we can see where those come from (they didn’t invent the ) and what they do (their uses and effects). Which is why the Jungian mystic and professional atheist belong in the same group.
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I would ask you to explain that but I really don't want to spend any more time on this. You do you.
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