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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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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Yenrap Rellin

    Precisely. We cannot 'balance' critical thinking with magical thinking any more than we can balance freedom of speech with censorship of offensive speech. There is no balance. We just lose critical thinking and freedom of speech.https://twitter.com/sisboombahbah/status/999998582181810176 …

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    Yenrap Rellin @sisboombahbah
    Replying to @britcit @HPluckrose
    We don’t need to “balance” the critical thinking aspect. We need to strengthen it! Everything else is bias. Bias doesn’t need to be coddled. It needs to be seen for what it is. It holds us back from truly evolving into something better.
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25

        I particularly despair of, 'I do believe in objective truth! I just also believe things that are not objectively true (and are in fact false) to be true.'pic.twitter.com/2tKEYeIP55

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25

        Please assume that if someone asks if you believe in objective truth that they are asking you if you believe truth to be objective. If you believe things can be true whether they are objectively so or not, you do not believe in objective truth. It's not hard.

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25

        I can't help noticing that Twitter likes me better when I am tired, grumpy & have zero patience than when I am well-rested, polite & endlessly charitable. You are all bad, bad people.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25

        pic.twitter.com/aZIgNFfdW1

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      2. Citizen K‏ @britcit May 25
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Fine, bad wording. The point I was trying to make was that Jungian psychology is not an attempt to prescribe how we should interpret the world but to describe how we actually do. It may not be complete/right, but it's a theory based on observation of what is not what should be.

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      3. Citizen K‏ @britcit May 25
        Replying to @britcit @HPluckrose

        To that extent I see it as an attempt to apply critical thinking to subjective experience, identify common patterns and build theories based on those observations. I'm not saying it's magical thinking that needs to be given equal status with critical thinking.

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
        Replying to @britcit

        Understood. I still think evolutionary and cognitive psychology do this better tho. Jung is mostly good for intuitive satisfaction.

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      5. Citizen K‏ @britcit May 25
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I agree with that. Don't shout at me, Helen, i'm a bear of relatively little brain and I'm trying my best ;-)

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      6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
        Replying to @britcit

        pic.twitter.com/OVY45cmF4Y

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      7. Citizen K‏ @britcit May 25
        Replying to @HPluckrose

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      1. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah May 25
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Let’s list other things that can’t be balanced: Rules of the road & my “need for speed!” My bad eyesight & my refusal to wear glasses for fear of being called “four eyes”. Civil society in general & my occasional urge to slap everyone on earth. Etc.

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