2. The “cold right” is basically a war against there being more than there is in the world, it is the most disenchanted and scientific view possible. They are the truest atheists, i.e. they are those who see even “atheism” is social signalling connected to evolutionary demand.
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3. The man who best represents this view is the philosopher David Stove. He liked to shave off the human desire to add “something more” to what is: Plato’s ideal form, Kant’s noumena, Marx’s labour theory of value. Stove identified all of these as unecessary abstractions.
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4. He called this “the gem” or the worst argument in the world. And this comforting picture is an example of it: “We can know things only as they are related to us under our forms of perception and understanding insofar as they fall under our conceptual schemes.”
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5. Another way to put it: “We can eat oysters only insofar as they are brought under the physiological and chemical conditions which are the presuppositions of the possibility of being eaten. Therefore, We cannot eat oysters as they are in themselves.”
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6. Put this way, you begin to see the problem with the cartoon. The conclusion that we cannot know things as they are does not follow from the premise that we can only know things as they are related to us (Franklin, 2002).
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