So "if only they would listen to the facts" is a thing people sometimes say about climate change, for example. It implies that 1) there are established truths about climate change 2) which the speaker knows and 3) which the speaker's opponent ought to also know.https://twitter.com/mrgunn/status/1116486306043817984 …
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"There are no facts" is a poetic way of pointing to all of this, as well as to a related and more subtle thing about different people living in vastly different "reality tunnels," in Timothy Leary / Robert Anton Wilson's sense. See e.g.https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/ …
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(Is there a cooler way to say "reality tunnels" these days? Seems like something
@vgr would've coined a more modern term for.)Show this thread
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