What does it sound like when defeat is conceded? This is the intellectual analog of “Tapping Out” or “Submission” in MMA. Beyond this point, intellectually if not politically, it’s simply King Arthur fighting a limbless black knight refusing to acknowledge the extent of the loss.https://twitter.com/IndyaMoore/status/1097269840165904384 …
This is yet another case where it would be useful to ask the person making such a claim 'What evidence would lead you to change your mind?' 98% of the time, they have no answer.
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i love when non-biologists make extremely biological statements
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There’s maybe a little more traction with “how would the world look if not-x?” People are often so used to fighting the good fight via creative conceptual cartography that they’ve forgotten any of this was supposed to correspond to *anything* in the actual world
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The map is not the territory ~S.I. Hayakawa Might be the understanding most lacking ~
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@magnabosco would do a street epistemology series just for this type of belief.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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"If, as feminist philosophers have argued, the pursuit of absolute truth does not necessarily go hand in hand with an end to domination, then it is logical that, for these feminist philosophers, there will be a move away from a concern for absolute truth..."
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The reason that they can't point to evidence that will change their mind is because it is a belief system with all the trappings of evangelical Christianity.
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