White folks are really still out here making semi-arbitrary distinctions and definitions and calling that logic like all their philosopher idols didn’t rip that shit to shreds LITERAL CENTURIES ago. Smh.
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But for real y’all really act like Socrates didn’t reduce basically all definitions to nothing, to aporia, to failure (especially ones as flimsy as the wack-ass necessary/sufficient conditions y’all like to toss out for whatever word you want to weaponize today).
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LEARN THE LESSONS YOUR OWN PHILOSOPHERS TEACH YOU and then accept that the rationalist project in bounded on all sides by the manifold limitations of human beings.
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Really, I take it as a precondition of like, social justice logic that perspective and experience and society and motivations hem in your reasoning on all sides. Not that there’s NO way to transcend that, but it’s really, REALLY hard.
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And yet we STILL have MILLIONS if not BILLIONS of white men who are convinced they can grasp the truth of things using the awesome power of their white boy minds without even making a real effort to listen to people who have different experiences.
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Just. Like. Who have you read? Who is giving sanction to this basic-ass rationalism? And how many, many, many people must you have not even read about to still think this holds water in the year of our Lord two thousand and eighteen?
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I truly long for the day in which this silly word game arbitrary definition, pseudo-Socratic formalism is no longer understood to have some privileged access to proof when it is in reality no more than a familiar cultural form, fairly easy to master, may or may not lead to truth.
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