Are sweeping generalizations always wrong?
People think when Obi-Wan says "only a Sith deals in absolutes" it is self refuting, but this is absurd. This means that if there are two groups, one "absolutist" and the another not, the "non-absolutist" group would be incapable of describing the situation. In this essay, I will
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In German he says sth like „Only a Sith deals in nothing but absolutes“ which is way better
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I really enjoy Shakespeare in the original German.
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I think the point of the prequels are that the Jedi weren't all they were cracked up to be. In THIS essay, I will
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That’s what I always thought. There seemed to be a lot of hypocrisy.
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I mean surely it depends on the meaning of “deal”? If “deal” means “uses at any point”, then yes, it’s flawed, but if it means “uses even when not proven”, then it isn’t. Only the Sith claim everything is in absolutes, but that doesn’t mean the Jedi don’t use absolutes if proven.
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You are too smart for Twitter
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So no absolute truths, only fallible truths.
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Yoda: solution to the problem fallibilism is.
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