Interviewing @peterboghossian, I would have been less polite than @peternlimberg, and pressed him with "yes, and"s. Standpoint epistemology is not entirely wrong; we do all have limited knowledge and understanding, which is partly a matter of social position; this does matter.
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(I should say that it's a GREAT interview and I recommend listening! Both participants were really sharp and interesting.)https://anchor.fm/intellectualexplorersclub/episodes/Peter-Boghoassian---The-Great-Realignment-e3vobd …
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Intersectionality can be misused as an inverted standard of value, but it's a real thing. My black female immigrant lover got specific types of flak that people in any two of those three categories would not have faced.
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Postmodernism is invoked as all-purpose backing for "you have to do whatever I want you to, because my feelings, facts be damned"; but the overall postmodern critique of rationalism is actually correct. There are no ultimate foundations anywhere.
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Replying to @Meaningness
Do you mean that there are no ultimate rationalist foundations anywhere? Reality is a foundation.
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Well... this could lead to a discussion about what “foundation” and “reality” each mean, which differs in different contexts, and then how reality does and doesn’t function as a foundation for what purposes, and so on.
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There’s lots of ways to get this wrong by oversimplifying it. But... the melting point of bismuth is 271C, which is easy to check, and the conceptual complexities are irrelevant to that.
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Replying to @Meaningness
I'd distinguish between the idea that we measure reality differently in different contexts from the idea that there is a reality. We have to measure it differently because we are finite, but we believe that reality is unified.
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Replying to @spearofsolomon
I try to avoid metaphysical questions of this general flavor. Better to find out through observation what we actually do and how.
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Consider the contrapositive: if we didn't assume that reality was one, we couldn't carry assumptions and methods of inquiry from one domain to another. All previous knowledge/MoI would have to be considered as nil, orthogonal, or even misleading, in new domains. No?
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I don’t think this argument works; but as I mentioned I think arguments about metaphysics are useless. What practical matter turns on the outcome? Methods do transfer across domains to some extent, and not always or completely. Does metaphysics let us do that better?
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Replying to @Meaningness @spearofsolomon
Pattern architecture does it best imo
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