No worries. I'm under no illusions that I can convince you to change your mind about the term! At some point over the years all the discussions about ...
So the concept of privilege isn't contrary to any of your experiences. You simply feel it is patronising. So focus on the facts: do you find anything ...
Moral instruction can be distasteful when the values+perspectives to be imputed go against something in you, yeah. Which of your experiences does the ...
What kind of idea is incapable of being accurate or inaccurate? Can you give some examples? Edit: I guess what I'd really like is: (1) A bunch of ("br...
That's interesting. I guess one reading of it is causal, like "I am privileged /because/ I'm white" - so someone who did not feel privileged might go ...
That quacked me up. Correct me if I'm wrong, it seems to me the main thing you dislike about white privilege is that you believe the phrase has essent...
How can you tell if someone who extremely dislikes the concept of white privilege is doing so for system justification/self palliative reasons or not?...
I don't think brute facts exist. I think the idea of a brute fact is one which does not depend in any way on the capacities of an agent in perceiving/...
Something rough and ready in that regard: Subjective/objective in their usual use are better parsed as matters of taste (subjective) and not matters o...
I think @"JerseyFlight"'s post is a pretty straightforward argument written in a polemical way. (1) Accepting an ideology can have a palliative functi...
I've never known you to use "they" like that when talking about an elephant in the room regarding people. I say this despite being critical of Peterso...
I did read it. There's no definition of quality in the OP, only an implicit equation of mod posts with quality standards. You can read the list I wrot...
Eh, I'm somewhat sympathetic to him. The social issues he's speaking about are pretty real. Even if he presents some of them in an inverted reactionar...
His popular stuff is all self help and DESTROYing the left. It's one thing to talk about his arguments, it's another to consider why he's appealing an...
Think there's some value in him. Well. About him. What concerns does he speak to that made him so popular? What is it about his language and work that...
So much comes down to the distinction between subjective and objective! I don't support the distinction. It looks like two words (with a lot of baggag...
If we disagree so vehemently, there is usually something of substance to the disagreement. I have a few questions regarding this: When you say an some...
It's very silly. (1) Whether someone is a mod or not, the same rules apply regarding conduct. (2) Regulating conduct is more a matter of enforcing bas...
Sometimes I do this, sometimes I don't. I have a lot of hats. Maybe 50% of them are asshole shaped. I can write good posts sometimes. That's for the v...
You know you can go back through a poster's posting history right? If you go to someone's profile and click on discussions, you'll see the threads the...
If you want syllogisms rather than polemic, though I doubt a syllogism will be particularly effective. (1) The discovery of facts requires interpretat...
Consider that we're talking sufficiently abstractly that any reason, any fact, any justification, any supporting story, any sentimental attachment for...
Mutual agreement will not save you. An agreement is simply a shared interpretation. The community of flat earthers shares an interpretation of facts t...
That's clearly an invalid argument. The number of arrangements doesn't say anything about their quality, only whether there are reasonable accounts do...
I think a fact's nature depends on the fact. Aspects of a fact that do not depend on an agent's interpretation, an agent's interpretation simply bring...
"Explaining the meaning of a fact" looks like a decent working definition to me. With the caveat that facts usually engender multiple interpretations....
It's a servitor role I think. I'm assuming that intellectual = professional researcher. If you meant something different by it, I dunno what you mean....
(1) Facts have interpretations. (2) When someone writes an account of something, they make a choice regarding what is relevant to present. (3) The poi...
And some part of me wonders if extremely strong skepticism is just another form of faith; doubting all that would change my mind. I could be skeptical...
I'm not baiting you into heavily derailing your own thread. Whatever the facts are, they don't justify any interpretation. I don't mean that just as s...
I broadly agree with what you've written. Though I think that driving such a hard wedge between fact and interpretation is very close to skepticism. H...
Something like this; if you conclude that it's true and false, the conjunction of a truth and a falsehood is a false, so it's false. IE, it appears to...
Question motivated by the following insight: for everything else which is both True and False, the conjunction of True and False is simply False. Like...
I thought it was about the pragmatic distinction between theory and praxis rather than the theoretical one. You know, doing relevant things vs theoris...
I'm still a bit confused how you could contribute to the discussion with a gun in your mouth. It'd make your words a bit muffled, no? Syllogism = th-h...
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