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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by akiselev on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:33PM (#33847608)
> It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth."

Down the nihilistic rabbit hole we go!

That's this layman's understanding of where postmodernism almost invariably ends up.

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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by wwweston on Saturday December 03, 2022 @05:51PM (#33848317)
If you're equating the elaboration of difficulty with the declaration of impossibility, then the nihilism is inside you.
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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by akiselev on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:26PM (#33848592)
That’s exactly what a nihilistic postmodernist would say.
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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by wwweston on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:42PM (#33848744)
I mean, I guess your pithy comeback is a sentence someone could say if they were all in on posture and casual in their nihilistic contempt for semantics and substance.
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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by akiselev on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:57PM (#33848867)
We should start a podcast!

No one will be able to tell if we’re serious, trolling ourselves, trolling each other, or trolling the audience.

The essence of postmodernism is actually plausible deniability.

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