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My objection is to sheer bad faith. It's like claiming 2+2=4 is suspect because of who said it.
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Not that it’s suspect but that it’s incomplete without wider context. To which mathematicians would agree.
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Incomplete for some things like institution design or reform. Not for everything.
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You can check a logical proof for yourself in many cases and use it, no appeal to authority or context needed
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yes, as you get closer to human affairs, things get more culturally relative.
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Yes exactly. It gets harder and harder not to invisibly embed values in supposedly “pure” truths.
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It takes courage to draw a line in the sand and decide for yourself where politics begins to dominate
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I see ideologues of all sorts as lacking courage to decide that larger-than-human truths exist and begin somewhere
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Really? In America at least I see far more ideologues claiming they have unique hold on larger-than-human truth.
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ah that's just religion :) I mean more important things like deciding 2+2=4 is not about racism or LGBT rights
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