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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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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      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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        1. 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. Tony Hopkinson‏ @TonyJHopkinson May 21
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          "arrogant tendency to think we can construct reality with words is awful" Should be a meme that.

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