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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Apr 2018
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      There are almost no just-plain-true (or false) facts in the macroscopic natural world. We’ve engineered our environment to support deductive reasoning, which doesn’t work in nature. Text from Elijah Millgram’s _Hard Truths_pic.twitter.com/e6HLMSjpb3

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Apr 2018
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      Ironically, rationalists suppose that facts of nature are flatly true or false, and it is only when you get to messy social stuff that truth starts to break down in ambiguity. Whereas the few just-plain-true facts we have are mainly social: Ohio is one of the United States.pic.twitter.com/L60BPWyMzP

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        2. the normie whisperer‏ @simplic10 21 Apr 2018
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          Offhand, nature doesn't seem that deficient in flat truths. The sun rises in the west, coyotes eat meat, fire melts ice...

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Apr 2018
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          These are only more-or-less true. I’m sure someone has a pet coyote they feed on vegetarian dog food. Saw a coyote go by my house just an hour ago, btw. First one this year!https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/natural-balance-vegetarian-formula-dog-food …

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        2. Chris Vermilion‏ @ChrisVermilion 21 Apr 2018
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          Flatly true facts are true by definition, which implies a definer, I suppose?

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Apr 2018
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          Well, supposedly there are flatly-true facts that are true not by definition, but contingently true in our world, due to physics or something.

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        2. 𝕵𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚‏ @Jayarava 21 Apr 2018
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          The idea of "social facts" is old hat. John Searle was writing about this 25 years ago. Money for example is an institutional fact, it is ontologically subjective, but epistemically objective.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Apr 2018
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          It’s a great deal older than Searle!

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        2. Baron BeeGangsta‏ @BaronBeeGangsta 21 Apr 2018
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          I must be missing something here. Hasn't "horses have 4 legs" been a fact for quite some?

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 21 Apr 2018
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          Not all horses have four legs. (Birth defects, accidents, etc.) And, there are things about which it is ambiguous whether they are horses. (Dead horses; horses of extinct species; toy horses, …)

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