Re:‘What Do You Think Is the Most Important Problem Facing T...
by dredmorbius on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:30AM
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I do agree that the problems listed are more on the order of symptoms than fundamental causes. I'm not convinced that anti-realism is that fundamental cause, though it's quite certainly a major confounding factor.
Cory Doctorow in a recent Boing Boing article:
"we're not living through a crisis about what is true, we're living through a crisis about how we know whether something is true. We're not disagreeing about facts, we're disagreeing about epistemology."
Cory Doctorow in a recent Boing Boing article:
"we're not living through a crisis about what is true, we're living through a crisis about how we know whether something is true. We're not disagreeing about facts, we're disagreeing about epistemology."
https://boingboing.net/2017/02/25/counternarratives-not-fact...
I see the problems as of limits and distributionalism, most fundamentally. That's a longer story.