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We, as a species, do not favour the rational & evidence-based over the emotional & intuitive. Even the most vulcan-like of us, with much knowledge of our cognitive biases, making every attempt at objective, evidence-based reasoning will have limited success doing this alone.
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We began to make significant progress in knowledge during the modern period when various intellectual & political developments caused us to devise a system in which people with different opinions got together & argued them out with an expectation they would use evidence & reason.
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The consequent development of science & technology & the formation of secular liberal democracy & individual freedoms & expertise made things a lot better. This system, this thinking, this process is not masculine. It is not white. It is not western. They belong to humanity.
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It is not perfect but it is the best way & it is self-refining. The idea that we need to stop trying to separate what can be established to be (provisionally) true from what we feel & intuit & give in to our arrogant tendency to think we can construct reality with words is awful.
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Do not let post/metamodernists tell you this is a new & productive way of getting at knowledge which breaks down false constructs rooted in evidence & reason (often known as the 'correspondence model). It is as old as humanity & we took steps to overcome it for a reason.
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I hesitantly disagree somewhat... hesitantly because that position is probably most sound as a basis for civilisation, stability, progress etc (as we know it)... however, I believe very strongly that individual human intelligence is pitiful, even in the most gifted genius 1/
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even many geniuses in discussion are constrained by the limits of human intelligence. I believe however that the subconscious is where our ultimate potential lies... unfortunately our ability to access and use it is poor, possibly because we act on the conscious level which ...
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Do they actually say this outright? That we should embrace contradiction and ambiguity? I was thinking this was just something they tried to ignore in their doctrines. That they actually promote it is even more alarming.
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It depends on whether you are looking for objective truth or making art. As far as describing Physics and its epistemology goes, postmodernism is a dismal failure.
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