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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 21

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 21

      Postmodernists & metamodernists frequently tell us that we, as a society, falsely favour the rational & evidence-based over the emotional & intuitive. They say we must learn to break down these borders & embrace contradiction, ambiguity & slippage. They are, of course, wrong.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 21

      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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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 21

          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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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 21

          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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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 21

          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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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 21

          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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        1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 21

          Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Steve Stewart-Williams

          See!https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/998454296675995648 …

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          Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill
          When the scientific consensus diverges from people's political beliefs, people change their political beliefs http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1075547018769907 … Just kidding; they often just change their beliefs about scientists, seeing them less favourably and as less moral. Liberals seem to do it more! pic.twitter.com/pQRfMq57Rn
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        2. Georgie‏ @GiannaMarriotta May 21
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          "We as a species"? No. Early human development intuitive awareness/ connected knowing/ parts of brain needed for this highly developed. Some cultures still the case. "Civilisation" esp Patriarchal Western thought rewarded/encouraged analytical thought above other.

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        3. mirax‏ @miraxpath May 21
          Replying to @GiannaMarriotta @HPluckrose

          Yeah, what a burden civilisation is. If only we could all return to being noble savages and intuitive beasts in touch with our inner 'whole' selves.

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        4. Silvio Capobianco‏ @capobianco_slv May 21
          Replying to @miraxpath @GiannaMarriotta @HPluckrose

          And have a life expectancy of 35 years, and have six children in ten die in their infancy, and be wiped away by wars, famines, and natural disasters. Those who want are welcome to go. I will stay in 21st century society. And I guess I am not alone.

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        1. Harold Weaver Smith‏ @hws5mp May 21
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I agree that evidence is worth more than intuition & emotion, but the latter still have a powerful effect on the world, so understanding them matters. When trying to do this, you're into the realm of deep psychology where direct evidence isn't available & reason doesn't apply

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        1. (((ɹoqǝɹʇs ɹ ɔ)))‏ @MetaRantz May 21
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          I so very much wish humans were more rational. We’d go further, quicker.

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