What I understand is that interpretations, characterisations and the like certainly mesh with facts by being so closely attached to the fact being int...
Nice posts Creativesoul, I was looking for someone to attempt to defend the white privilege framing and finally, someone did. I have to admit, I wasn'...
Is this how thinkers should think? Prejudice and stereotyping? If one only asserts, instead of argues and justifies, then since I can't tackle the arg...
The only reason I accepted Asif's banning was because he engaged in personal attacks in a large majority of his posts. Personal attacks, repetitive, l...
Well, I haven't understood social facts to function differently in how truth is arranged, I was just searching for a boundary with regards to how soci...
I agree, we can certainly try to evaluate the effectiveness of the arrangement using empirical evidence although how successful that will be could var...
The grounds for my disdain for the white privilege conceptualisation are not on the basis of truth. I am not rejecting the evidence used by those who ...
Because you have said that the questions I asked were nonsense and complained about why I can't comprehend white privilege. Which pretty much is the a...
I have been waiting for the response you said you were working on in the privilege thread, respond there if you wish to continue talking about the whi...
Real empowerment, based on your real position and abilities within society. He argues that you should take care of yourself, then if you get that righ...
Peterson advocates for the empowerment of the individual while acknowledging the difficulty of life as well as the wonderment of life. I think his fra...
My OP is actually very simple, I consider it to be stating the obvious. So if it seems for you to be simple and stating the obvious then don't think y...
It is crucial to my OP but it is not crucial to understanding my OP. You asked why and I answered. It really depends on the context, what you are tryi...
Firstly, let's call near-infinite a hyperbole. Secondly, why evaluate anything? Because you discriminate between outcomes. How one discriminates is no...
The distance between us here comes before the issues of racism and racial inequity and back to my OP. If white privilege is an arrangement of truth, f...
Yes, this is most of what I was pointing out. Yes, that is a good example of an arrangement, you can see a lot of what I was talking about in OP here....
I have listened to Peterson quite a bit and I am not entirely sure what values you think he is preaching, common decency and personal responsibility m...
Slow down there Jerseyflight, I believe one can know the truth, however, we need to scrutinise which claims of truth are valid and which are misleadin...
I can see the importance of such distinctions, I agree though I wouldn't have described it nearly as well. There's a lot you've brought up which I oug...
I don't really disagree that the terms objective and subjective have issues. Thinking of alternative conceptualisations has been on my mind lately but...
Whether something is objective or subjective tells me how I should approach trying to understand it. When it comes to objective truth, it is experienc...
What I have said is that you are either aware of the personalisation of your arrangement or you are deluded, not that using narratives or characterisa...
That's the world we live in, earthly manners of acquiring agreement are all there is, do your beliefs give you supernatural powers to compel others to...
I understand bias has negative connotations, I don't know of a word that helps me to avoid these. Biases, when you are trying to determine the truth, ...
We presuppose that reality exists and that truth is that which is in accordance with reality. Whether something is true or not is based on whether it ...
Sure. What is the nature of a fact? And is it the fact's nature according to only to your interpretation? Sure. Are you saying it is only the logical ...
I made an error in accepting your substitution due to not properly reading your comment, but I admit that the previous edit had "the truth" where "tru...
I wholeheartedly agree with how you've paraphrased the concept and with how you suggest evaluating arrangements. I don't think it is the only valid an...
I have a small concern, how do you define interpretation? I use it here to say: explaining the meaning of something. If you agree with that and we are...
Are you sure you want to accuse me of a fallacy? Those definitions I have given are pretty standard, truth and truths are different words. Do you want...
Facts don't justify interpretations, the rules for justification are negotiated or created. Sometimes what you are saying sounds like a valid way to a...
I don't know precisely what you mean but it probably is scepticism, to some extent, what I've written, I believe it is the bedrock of nihilism. I don'...
Can we divorce the preference for sleeping from the pleasure of waking up feeling refreshed? Or the comfort of snuggling up in bed while trying to go ...
I agree that the conclusion of arranging truths, interpreting them and arguing their meaning can be contested by a true statement. I made an error in ...
There is a procedure for complaining about forum moderators but Asif gets banned because of "low quality" without any breach of rules being cited or a...
"The truth" was perhaps more abstract than I was going for but conceptually it is simple enough to understand. That there are truths is less important...
I don't expect much from a site that has streetlightx as a forum mod but banning Asif for "low quality" is quite amusing. I wonder what he said that g...
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